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  2. Fast-roping - Wikipedia

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    Fast-roping is a technique for descending a thick rope, allowing troops to deploy from a helicopter in places where the aircraft cannot touch down. [ 1 ] The person holds onto the rope with gloved hands (with or without using their feet) and slides down it.

  3. Assault course - Wikipedia

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    5 steppingstones, 20 cm diameter, 1,25m apart, 15 cm high. 2m deep 4m wide pit. 3 x 2.4m wide ditches 2.4m apart, 0.5m deep, 0.8m deep, and 0.5m deep. The Standards Obstacle Course have up to 4 lanes, and are adjusted to fit available space. Females and Males over age 51 do not have to undertake obstacle 9 and 10.

  4. Bolt rope - Wikipedia

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    Sail detail at the tack (lower corner of the leading edge) of a mainsail, showing bolt ropes in the luff and foot.Bolt ropes may extend to other parts of a sail, as well.. A bolt rope [1] (Variants: "bolt-rope" and "boltrope", French: ralingue, Spanish: relinga, [2] Old Norse: *rár-línk, comprising rár genitive of rá "rope" and línk "edge of a sail "), is the rope that is sewn at the ...

  5. Ropes course - Wikipedia

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    It is unclear where and when the first ropes course was created. Obstacle courses have been used by the military to train soldiers as far back as the ancient Greeks. Those courses, however, were primarily used for the training of extremely fit individuals and not necessarily aimed at the development of unremarkable persons as is common practice ...

  6. Milliradian - Wikipedia

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    For instance to move the line of sight 0.4 mrad, a 0.1 mrad scope must be adjusted 4 clicks, while comparably a 0.05 mrad and 0.025 mrad scope must be adjusted 8 and 16 clicks respectively. Others ⁠ 1.5 / 10 ⁠ mrad and ⁠ 2 / 10 ⁠ mrad can be found in some short range sights, mostly with capped turrets, but are not very widely used.

  7. Hawley said he’d make it ‘painful’ if he didn’t get way on ...

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    Hawley threatened to “use every procedural means at my disposal to make it painful” if he didn’t get his way on the NDAA. But his strategy hardly made a dent.

  8. M16 rifle - Wikipedia

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    The Colt 3×20 telescopic sight was factory adjusted to be parallax-free at 200 yd (183 m). [113] [114] In Delft, the Netherlands Artillerie-Inrichtingen produced a roughly similar 3×25 telescopic sight for the carrying handle mounting interfaces. [115] The M16 elevated iron sight line has a 19.75 in (502 mm) sight radius. [23]

  9. Want to Improve Your Grip Strength? Here’s How - AOL

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    You should strive for 3–4 sets of 8–12 reps or hold for 20–60 seconds, depending on the exercise, says White. “You should perform these reps/exercises at least 2-3 times per week allowing ...