1. Between one-third and one-half of the peacekeepers, along with their commanding officer, will be Americans wearing U.N. blue helmets. 2. About half of those soldiers currently serve as UN troops, and will simply exchange their UN blue helmets for NATO camouflage ones. 3. Even reinforced by heavier guns and attack helicopters, the blue helmets are not equipped to fight a war. 4. From the endzone Davis touched his flattened palm to the crown of his blue helmet and snapped off a crisp military salute. 5. He gazes out, past the wire and the French U.N. soldiers in their blue helmets, to the far side, held and guarded by Bosnian Serbs. 6. He gazes out, past the wire and the French United Nations soldiers in their blue helmets, to the far side, held and guarded by Bosnian Serbs. 7. He sat alone and grimaced, angrily rocking the blue plastic helmet back and forth on the bench before swatting it to the ground. 8. I first heard of bluespeak from my wife, Deborah Scroggins, a reporter at my paper, who heard about it from some blue helmets in New York. 9. In their helmet-to-helmet collision, Miller toppled backward, the back of his gold-horned blue helmet slamming into the artificial surface. 10. Many may simply take off their UN blue helmets and trade them for NATO green ones, since many UN troops are already members of NATO. |