MCCONNELL: Well the drops - please understand the airdrops are a very small fraction of the total food aid that is going and is continuing to go into Afghanistan. ❋ Unknown (2001)
To what degree did the military stick to a plan that was inadequate, and how quick was it to improvise creative solutions such as airdrops of supplies from helicopters? ❋ Unknown (2005)
The team received no outside support such as airdrops of supplies.
At AventureStats, the definition of Solo similarly implies "no human assistance (such as airdrops); no physical human contact throughout the entire expedition, and no proximity to other expeditions on the ice."
'airdrops' [in which equipment parachutes down from an aircraft] .... ❋ Unknown (2009)
More photos and interactive graphics The airdrops have taken on a new urgency with the surge in U.S. forces to almost 100,000 troops and the intensified threat from hidden explosives, which are often placed along known supply routes. ❋ Michael M. Phillips (2011)
The British grew nervous the massive supply operation would end up arming different Maquis factions to fight one another after the war but Donovan pressed to keep up the airdrops. ❋ Douglas Waller (2011)
Bad weather, however, delayed airdrops for Cross before the war ended so Donovan eventually scrubbed the sabotage and kidnap missions. ❋ Douglas Waller (2011)
Michael M. Phillips/The Wall Street Journal Using Google Earth and disposable parachutes, the Air Force is conducting around-the-clock airdrops of ammunition, fuel, food and water to troops in Afghanistan. ❋ Unknown (2011)
An industrial civilization does not easily go back to the Stone Age, but people adjust to what feels like the 19th-century frontier another favorite Heinlein setting: Ceramics replace metals, heliograph substitutes for radio, airdrops come in from outside. ❋ Tom Shippey (2011)
Claims he left the Air Force and joined a reserve SF unit and was called up during DESERT STORM but was released because he weighed too much for airdrops. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Flooding has also spread from Queensland into New South Wales, where nearly 7,000 people are reliant on airdrops of food and other supplies after being isolated by floodwaters. ❋ Associated Press (2011)
WAZA KHWA, Afghanistan—The U.S. military, using Google Earth and disposable parachutes, is escalating its airdrops to troops in isolated outposts, to avoid exposing ground convoys to ambushes and roadside bombs. ❋ Michael M. Phillips (2011)
On the television in her stateroom, Fox News broadcast the first airdrops over Port-au-Prince amid a background of apocalypse. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Dramatic as unmanned airdrops and robo-grenade launchers might sound, the Recon Scout serves the same relatively low-key role outside of prisons as it will in them. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But, for many, it is too late, and lots of people are questioning, why weren't airdrops made last week? ❋ Unknown (2010)
