spork n.— «The buffalo in question is the fourth vehicle in the patrol, towering over the armored trucks. Rather than an animal, it looks more like a medieval siege engine, with its row of small, thick-lensed windows and an iron-clawed...
IED petting zoo n.— «A special training ground has been set up at Fort Drum where soldiers headed for Iraq and Afghanistan are being trained how to spot improvised explosive devices blamed for causing most of the casualties suffered by U...
ice cream truck n.— «We exited the plane and the scene was stark—soldiers, machine guns, maneuvering us quickly into what they called ice cream trucks—that looked just like that but were bullet and “IED” reinforced...
rice bowl n.— «To be sure, there remain hotbeds—maybe “rice bowls” is more apt—of interest in IED and IPS in and out of the Navy.…Several government officials conclude that Secretary Danzig’s corporate approach cannot...
IED v.— «“If they i.e.d. you in this thing, there won’t be enough of you left to package up and send home,” a Marine sergeant said earlier this week, as he showed embedded reporters to one of three open-backed Humvees assigned to a...
v-bidder n.— «Rafael Epstein: “And it was, you say, a vehicle-born explosive device. Is that that someone tried to use a car bomb to attack a military convoy?” Philip Smith: “That’s what a lot of you all refer to it as...