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Usage examples of wingmen.

With a comparatively high rate of fire of one hundred and eighty rounds a minute, they were able to direct an almost continuous rain of nickel-coated lead at the Bears below and - like all wingmen - they excelled at snap shooting.

Steve and the other wingmen grabbed their helmets, made sure the folded maps in the clear pockets on their thighs showed the correct section of terrain, checked that their holstered air pistol was secure, that their combat knife was firmly clipped in its scabbard on the outside of the right calf, and that the zips on the leg and chest pockets holding their emergency water filter and survival rations were properly closed.

If you plan to graduate as wingmen a week next Friday, you're going to fly that blown-up bedsheet every inch of the way around the course that's been mapped out for you, and you're going to bring it back in one piece.

Long-range surveillance was provided by a section of ten Skyhawks flown by wingmen like Steve.

In addition to the nine wingmen under her command, Jodi Kazan was also in charge often ground-crew whose primary task was to help erect, launch, retrieve, stow and maintain the aircraft.

There was another reason why wingmen rightly regarded themselves as CFI Carrol had said - as the lite force of the Federation.

Steve and the other young wingmen were treated to the traditional blood-curdling tales of hand-to-hand combat and the primitive savagery of their wily enemy - the half-idiot, half-magical Mute.

If we'd been allowed to go lower ' Both wingmen had taken care to stay above the minimum altitude Kazan had given them before beginning the patrol.

Like her, both wingmen had considerable experience of bad-weather operations.

For Jodi and her wingmen there was no heady smell of cordite, or blazing barrels.

He buttonholed Steve and the other wingmen and told them to take their rifles up top to cover the ground-crew waiting to receive the incoming Skyhawk.

In all previous operations against the Southern Mutes, it would have been considered a disaster to lose eight wingmen in a month.

Steve realised that she must have returned re-equipped with a new section of wingmen to continue her thrust into Plainfolk territory.

If whoever owned the hut had downed the two wingmen maybe they had taken more than their heads.

It meant that the appearance of wagon-trains and wingmen had been predicted by the Plainfolk some four hundred years before the Federation had envisaged their use!