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	SOC - Operation Shining Express
		At the direction of the Secretary of Defense, the U.S. European Command sent military support to the region to provide the ambassador an enhanced capability to monitor the situation in Liberia and to be pre-positioned to aid in any evacuation of U.S. citizens.
		Operation Shining Express personnel are augmented security forces at the Embassy in Monrovia and supported State Department officials who were conducting an orderly departure of US citizens wishing to leave the country.
		USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), then returning to the United States after serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom, was directed to join forces in support of Operation Shining Express, to aid in the potential evacuation of U.S. citizens from the country of Liberia.
	www.bong-town.com /Bong_Town/Shining_Express.html (2194 words)

	Operation Sharp Edge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operation Sharp Edge was carried out by the United States Marine Corps 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit in mid-1990 amid increasing internal unrest which threatened U.S. diplomats and civilians in Liberia.
		Elements of a Marine Expeditionary Unit embarked in the USS Saipan (LHA-2) amphibious ready group to provide support to the U.S. Embassy and stood by to evacuate American citizens and others from 2 June to 5 August.
		Operation Shining Express, a similar mission to evacuation civilians, was carried out during the 2003 Liberian civil war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Sharp_Edge (141 words)

	Operation Shining Express
		Operation Shining Express includes special operations forces, Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps and Reserve components.
		Operation Shining Express personnel are augmented security forces at the Embassy in Monrovia and supported State Department officials who were conducting an orderly departure of US citizens wishing to leave the country.
		USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), then returning to the United States after serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom, was directed to join forces in support of Operation Shining Express, to aid in the potential evacuation of U.S. citizens from the country of Liberia.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/shining_express.htm (884 words)

	Operation Shining Express - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operation Shining Express was the July, 2003 deployment of a U.S. Naval task force based around the amphibious ship USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) to rescue civilians from Liberia's civil war.
		The deployment was announced on 13 June 2003.
		It followed the successful 1990 rescue effort in Liberia, Operation Sharp Edge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Shining_Express (91 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tradition and Living Magisterium
		In them is found the traditional thought expressed according to varieties of environments and circumstances, no longer in an inspired language, as is the case with Scripture, but in a purely human language, consequently subject to the imperfections and shortcomings of human thought.
		It even happens that, in attempting to express revealed truth in the terms of some philosophy or to fuse it with some current of human thought, it has been distorted so as to be scarcely recognizable, so closely mingled with error that it becomes difficult to separate them.
		Irenaeus in his time was in admiration of it and he expressed his admiration in language of such brilliancy and poetry as is seldom to be met with in the venerable Bishop of Lyons.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15006b.htm (6455 words)

	E-Notes: The Return of Shining Path - FPRI
		Shining Path’s comeback was facilitated by the critical errors made in the last decade by three Peruvian presidents.
		Shining Path’s leaders now had the opportunity to hold high staff meetings, assessing what was happening politically on the outside, and to communicate their comments and decisions to their people in the outside world.
		Shining Path’s imprisoned leaders clearly must have decided the time was right and given the instruction to strike again to the new operational teams.
	www.fpri.org /enotes/latin.20020405.bolivar.returnofshiningpath.html (1644 words)

	USS Kearsarge Joins Operation Shining Express
		NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) has been directed to join forces in support of Operation Shining Express, to aid in the potential evacuation of U.S. citizens from the country of Liberia.
		Currently, Operation Shining Express personnel are augmenting security forces at the Embassy in Monrovia and supporting State Department officials who are conducting an orderly departure of U.S. citizens wishing to leave the country.
		Operation Shining Express Forces will redeploy as soon as it is determined that the threats to the embassy compound have ended or an evacuation, if necessary, is completed.
	www.news.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=7997 (171 words)

	Air Ambulance Services & Air Ambulance Company Info
		The Burma Hump airlift operation saw what was probably the first use of helicopters for combat rescue, often the first step in the air ambulance evacuation process.
		In this way, aircraft that transported men and supplies to the theaters of operation were utilized as air ambulance evacuation aircraft on their return trip.
		In each operation, the presence of AE forces ensured the prompt and safe aeromedical evacuation of military personnel who needed more care than was available locally.
	www.catch-a-call-online.com /air-ambulance-service.html (4144 words)

	Shining Light in Dark Corners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		To prevent this from happening, it ordered state-owned coal mines to operate throughout the week-long festival, while railroads were told to use the extra holiday runs to transport more coal.
		The safety issue was highlighted most recently in the Sunjiawan coal mine in northeastern Liaoning province, which was among the operations that carried on extraction throughout the Lunar New Year festival.
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	shininglight.us /mt/archives/2005/02/global_energy_c.html (3747 words)

	Getting Space Exploration Right
		Under the new Bush space policy, the shuttles were scheduled to remain operational through 2010, permitting a final shuttle mission to Hubble to occur toward the end of the decade.
		Assuming a typical suspension of operations of two years after each mission failure, the program would need to be shut down for failure investigations at least 60 percent of the time.
		In such a destination-driven operation, NASA is forced to develop the most practical plan to reach the objective, and on that basis, select for development those technologies required to implement the plan.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/spacetravel-05v.html (14343 words)

	ADR 2000 - REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE
		The operation was a joint and allied effort, and the Air Force comprised nearly 50 percent of the combat force, delivered over 70 percent of the munitions, and provided almost all supporting aircraft.
		Exit surveys indicate that the continued high operating tempo rate remains a leading cause for separations, but the ready availability of civilian jobs, dissatisfaction with pay and allowances, and difficulties with TRICARE are all contributory factors.
		To ensure operational mission success, it is imperative that our information be trusted, timely, accurate, and in a form that is useful in our daily operations.
	www.defenselink.mil /execsec/adr2000/af.html (6519 words)

	Young, Arthur Young's Travels in France, Front Matter: Library of Economics and Liberty
		These peasant farmers wear under the blue blouse shining broad cloth, and betake themselves at midday to the first hotel in the place, there to enjoy the table d'hôte breakfast; but no sooner is business over, without losing a moment, untempted by fireworks and other entertainments, all set off homewards.
		Bobbin has expressed a wish for a workbox, and he bestows as much attention on the purchase as if he were in treaty for 4,000 acres of moorland.
		Three years later he was operated upon for cataract, and from a curious and interesting letter written by his wife, we learn the cause, or supposed cause, of failure.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Young/yngTF0.html (15455 words)

	ZNet \|India \| India:the Betrayal.
		"Shining India" was invented by the illusionists of its beneficiaries: the expanding middle class (a misnomer in India; there is no effective middle) and transnational capital.
		Since it was elected in 1978, the popular socialist government in West Bengal (officially, communist) has operated Operation Barga, a campaign to keep track of and register every one of the state's 2.3 million share croppers.
		Operation Barga is regarded throughout India as a success, especially as rice production in West Bengal has soared.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=66&ItemID=6178 (1652 words)

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		As multinational maritime operations are becoming increasingly more important, Exercise Solid Step seeks to enhance Argentine/U.S. Navy interoperability by addressing the challenges associated with sustained integrated operations.
		During her initial trip home, Kearsarge was diverted to head down the western coast of Africa to support Operation Shining Express, an operation to aid in the potential evacuation of U.S. citizens from Liberia.
		In keeping with the stepped-up operational tempo of U.S forces everywhere recently, the department's Sailors and Marines went to a 24-hour watchbill in late February, manning the maze at all times during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/news/navnews/nns03/nns030623.txt (5456 words)

	Channel 9
		Employees of Microsoft Corporation, and anyone working directly on Microsoft programs and their respective affiliates, parent companies, subsidiaries, prize suppliers, promotion, advertising and promotional agencies, and the immediate family members and persons living in the households of each are not eligible to enter.
		Entries using more than one version of Express in a single application and duplicate submissions of identical entries will not be considered.
		The application interface may be localized in the entrant’s language; however, it must be accompanied by an English transcript of the instructions and interface for English speaking judges.
	channel9.msdn.com /express/rules.aspx (1382 words)

	india.indymedia.org
		Tens of thousands of community members, have been participating in and International Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable for it's conduct, with plants in Mehdiganj, Uttar Pradesh, Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu Kaladera, Rajastan, facing increasing resistance to their operations as community members demand they are shut-down.
		The Police in the East Indian state of Orissa have laid siege to a group of dalit and adivasi (tribal) villages around Kashipur that have successfully kept the Utkal Alumina Industries Ltd (UAIL) from mining Baphlimali — a mountain held sacred by local adivasis -- for 12 years now.
		Since December 1, 2004, a witchhunt has been on for indigenous and dalit leaders and their key supporters, and a massive police operation has been launched to terrorise people into allowing the bauxite mining and alumina refining project to come up.
	india.indymedia.org (1520 words)

	The Flagship
		The Marines were to deploy to Iraq to conduct combat operations there for approximately a month.
		The amphibious assault ship Kearsarge was part of Amphibious Task Force East and was scheduled to return in June, however, it was diverted to the West Coast of Africa to support Operation Shining Express, to aid in the potential evacuation of U.S. citizens from Liberia, a nation in the grip of a civil war.
		The guided-missile cruiser Vella Gulf and guided-missile destroyer Ross represented the United States in the annual Baltic Operations exercise in the Baltic Sea.
	www.flagshipnews.com /archives_2003/dec242003_7.shtml (296 words)

	AFCEA International
		As the NAVSEA lead for Information Assurance operational requirements for the Submarine LAN (Tactical Information Distribution System), he was responsible for incorporating operational requirements into the design.
		During his deployment, as the sole planner he was responsible for all phases of planning and execution for highly classified Special Operations units under the most demanding combat conditions in support of national level objectives.
		He is responsible for the operations, maintenance and restoration of all satellite, HF, UHF, and VHF LOS telephone circuits in direct support of the embarked Seventh Fleet Commander.
	www.afcea.com /awards/copernicus.asp (3676 words)

	Ongoing World Conflicts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Some interventions are for "show of force" or part of a psychological warfare operation, while the most difficult missions, it could be argued, are those that combine humanitarian and military operations.
		Sometimes, it is used as a base of operations, but most of the time, it's where training, indoctrination, finance, documentation, and transshipment of terrorism takes place.
		Pakistan tends to follow a military, expansionist line (with constant hate toward India) based, in part, on a belief that it is the true heir to Muslim tradition-guarding in the region (the two-state theory of the partition).
	faculty.ncwc.edu /toconnor/areas/worldconflicts.htm (3352 words)

	The American Street » Blog Archive » On The Dulling of Shining Examples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		President Ronald Reagan’s “shining city upon a hill” is not a vision embraced by one political party alone.
		He understood that a breakdown in the respect for law would serve to dull the shining example we have set, as worshippers of democracy, as a decent people in a decent civil society, as Americans from that visionary city upon a hill.
		It is one of the bedrock principles of the rule of law that a law-enforcement officer cannot break the law as a means of enforcing the law.
	www.reachm.com /amstreet/archives/2005/02/10/on-the-dulling-of-shining-examples (2651 words)

	*Operation Infinite Freedom - Situation Room - 14 JUN 03/Day 87* (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		US troops launched their operations from Sunday across north-central Iraq after taking a spate of casualties from armed groups in recent weeks, but Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi warned Washington that it is making a mistake by refusing to give Iraqis more authority over their own country.
		We are alarmed at reports of arrests and provocative actions taken against students by regime forces, and call upon the regime to protect the human rights of the students and to release those who have been arrested.
		It is still a combat operation, but it takes on, as you can imagine, a significantly different nature than the decisive combat operations which have ended.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/928855/posts (7886 words)

	Amazing Science
		Arithmetic operations (Ganit) such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, squares, cubes and roots are enumerated in the Narad Vishnu Purana attributed to Ved Vyas (pre-1000 BC).
		In Satkhandagama various sets are operated upon by logarithmic functions to base two, by squaring and extracting square roots, and by raising to finite or infinite powers.
		He also correctly deduced that the moon and the planets shined by reflected sunlight and provided a valid explanation for the solar and lunar eclipses rejecting the superstitions and mythical belief systems surrounding the phenomenon.
	www.hinduism.co.za /amazing.htm (14803 words)

	The Flagship
		Among the vital roles filled were: basing and support to Marine Corps aviation units flying combat sorties over Iraq, medical care for combat casualties, coordination for temporary at sea detainment and interrogation of enemy prisoners of war, and participation in Central Command’s federated intelligence production.
		Just days later, Kearsarge was again redeployed, this time to the west coast of Africa to support Operation Shining Express.
		For years sailors and Marines have trained for the eventuality of a surge deployment, hoping that if such an event ever occurred, they would be ready.
	www.flagshipnews.com /archives_2003/jul032003_1.shtml (1063 words)

	Micropiece - We Will Do It For Love
		He left in a huff, angry that the independent operators should dismiss his fantasy of collective fraternity so outright and profanely.
		But I certainly heard them express their opinions loudly and clearly quite often.
		Their silent, hurried co-operation shining like a beacon, negating the cold nihilism of the the well-dressed woman who wanted to nuke the rest of the world, and the continuous flood of bad and worse news that the media pours onto the public like rancid gravy at a wedding feast.
	www.rense.com /general42/doit.htm (4325 words)

	3rd BN 11th MAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		While on the USS Missouri, he participated in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
		In July 2002 Lieutenant Colonel Fairfield transferred to the II Marine Expeditionary Force (II MEF) at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina for duty as the MEF targeting officer and fire support planner.
		While at II MEF, Lieutenant Colonel Fairfield deployed with 2d Marine Expeditionary Brigade/Task Force Tarawa where he participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom in Kuwait and Iraq, and Operation Shining Express in Liberia.
	www.29palms.usmc.mil /fmf/311/bnco.asp (348 words)

	ESA - Science - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mars Express radar data analysis is on the move
		Venus Express en route to probe the planet's hidden mysteries
		Venus Express set for launch to the cryptic planet
	www.esrin.esa.it /export/esaSC (133 words)

	Navy/Marine Corps News - 2002 Program Hi Lites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Americans express their thanks to servicemembers involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom for preserving their freedoms.
		Operation Iraqi Freedom is officially launched by order of the President of the United States.
		The centennial celebration of powered-flight begins with a ceremony in Washington D.C. Servicemembers undergoing PCS moves can now contact their new commands to arrange for a sponsor via the internet at www.staynavy.mil.
	www.mediacen.navy.mil /tv/nmcn/2003.htm (12120 words)

	Recent US Military Action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		February 23, 2005 - Bradleys were involved in an operation that resulted in the capture of three insurgents.
		MSgt Dennis Ross, USAF, is in the Vehicle Operations, career field, the Air Force Association has chosen this career field as the "2005 Team of the Year." MSgt Ross was chosen as a representative for this career field.
		TSgt Jason Hohenstreiter, USAF, is in the Vehicle Operations, career field, the Air Force Association has chosen this career field as the "2005 Team of the Year." TSgt Hohenstreiter was chosen as a representative for this career field.
	members.aol.com /rsacchi001/gulf/gulf.html (14758 words)

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