11.   A valued and expensive service is air support.

12.   After receiving word that the Maddox was engaged in battle, he ordered increased air support and then ordered the Maddox to leave the area, Moise said.

13.   Air support?

14.   Air support for Chinese ground forces and naval vessels in the distant waters of the South China Sea would require carrier-based air support.

15.   British and French officials say their troops will not stay if U.S. ground forces are pulled out, even if the United States provides air support.

16.   But as Defense Secretary William S. Cohen has repeatedly pointed out, most of the ships and air support for the mission will be supplied by the United States.

17.   But he said he was confident his long-deadlocked forces could make headway here with American air support.

18.   But despite increasing use of precision-guided weapons, problems in close air support persist.

19.   But the start of the U.S.-led air campaign fueled hopes among alliance military officials that they would receive U.S. air support to break the deadlock.

20.   Can the American forces use their own artillery, air support?