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    pickets


    1. He found Harry dutifully finishing the white washing of the fence pickets at the far side of the Lodge grounds


    2. Bert and Frank were carrying pickets and I was carrying angle irons and Pat Stiles and Nobby Clark had the wire in charge was S/Sgt Cocker stroking his moustache with his finger


    3. Bert and Frank set up a row of pickets and I put my angle irons on them then Pat and Nobby strung a fence of four strands right along the length


    4. Then they zig zagged the wire twelve feet in front and twelve feet behind to ground level using more angle irons the hammers we used and the tops of the pickets were muffled with rags to stop any noise


    5. The Spanish pickets concealed in palm trees, in the valley, soon saw blue uniforms advancing, and gave the alarm


    6. The enraged soldiers soon ceased to discriminate, and several harmless pacificos were shot plucking mangoes, and many insurgents were killed at night by pickets, for not answering the foreign challenge promptly


    7. Our pickets challenged and fired, and the Spaniards turned to run back to the city


    8. The house was fenced in high with stained flat pickets, and its gate securely padlocked


    9. The only activity visible to Harry was the methodical pacing of the pickets


    10. dozen similarly dressed men walked over to the pickets and rapidly became in-

    11. They recognised most of the pickets,


    12. pickets showed no hostility to either Don or Harry, and chatted amicably about


    13. The pickets rapidly probed the intruders for identification and rather than offer a challenge, turned and ran


    14. The pickets wisely withdrew and reformed as a group closer to their base


    15. The mother ship launched more picket ships, and soon the ten ships who had traveled from Homestead were opposed by two dozen pickets and a well armed mother ship


    16. The pickets moved in to pick up survivors


    17. The Eretz defensive plan had its compliment of pickets, but primarily used the larger, more heavily armed P I which, due to its monstrous reactor, could match the picket for maneuverability


    18. At the conclusion, they signed authorizations to charge the repairs to the pickets to their account at Saturn and a covenant not to sue for false arrest


    19. The pickets departed the mother ship in four waves headed in the direction of the oncoming drones


    20. None of the drones survived past the line of pickets

    21. Numb from the battle, Rachel was glad to see the pickets move to take a position closer to theirs as she called her group together so they could assess the damages and mourn the loss of their friends


    22. It did not change course to intercept either the destroyers or the pickets


    23. Finally, left with only their lasers, the destroyers and pickets finished off the last of the invaders


    24. The destroyers stayed in formation with the pickets for two more days


    25. The enemy’s plan obviously had been to rely on the hole in the defenses left by the destruction of the student squadron and the pickets behind it to allow the attackers into the system


    26. We need more firepower than the pickets can provide, which is why we are going back to the P I ships supplemented with light destroyers


    27. “Close, the battleship will serve as the hospital ship, flagship and tender for four pickets, four P


    28. destroyers I am supposed to have but they are stalling me on the P I ships and the pickets


    29. The pickets were single seat non hyper capable craft and only four pilots joined the ship’s crew


    30. Integrating the crews was Wendy’s responsibility so she had the flight crews and the battleship’s combat crews run simulations involving the pickets and the two destroyers they had brought from Earth

    31. The opposing ship’s Disruptor missiles, having regained their target, were passing the line of the silent and dark pickets as they traveled back in the direction they had come


    32. Disruptor missiles had claimed two of Rachel’s pickets


    33. The hull in one of the pickets had been breached, but since the pilot was wearing his sealed flight suit, he survived although he would have nightmares for years


    34. Even though the ships attacking the Schweitzer were older and less capable ships than the pickets, their greater numbers guaranteed that some of them would reach their targets


    35. The pickets coordinated their action against the local defenders with the lasers mounted on the big ship and fended off the first wave of attacks at the cost of two of their own


    36. Individual enemy ships continued to throw themselves at the battleship and the two surviving pickets continued their part of the battle


    37. As the space battle progressed, the pickets destroyed the enemy ships one at a time


    38. Eventually the last two pickets were lost although they had repulsed all but the last few of the enemy ships and the few of those that remained were heavily damaged


    39. By the time Rachel returned to the bridge, the Schweitzer was left to its own defenses having lost all of its pickets


    40. The few pickets they encountered guarding the aft end were quickly lasered out of existence

    41. “We had four pickets that got off


    42. We fought what was left, but pickets are not effective against the third force drones


    43. The sensors reported a small fleet of pickets on patrol in their vicinity


    44. The only ships that truly concerned Rachel were the two Viking P I ships and they entered the battle once the last of the pickets had been placed neatly in the corrals


    45. An examination by some of Rashi’s munitions specialists determined that the captured pickets had depleted most of their missiles


    46. The Thor Heyerdahl had a dozen pickets, but they would barely be able to take on a single cruiser


    47. “Four P I ships, twelve pickets and a squad of Marines well trained in ship-to-ship combat,”


    48. Rachel had deployed the pickets in a ring around the space between the propulsion units


    49. “Four pickets?” Peter sneered


    50. It seems that she reviewed the strategy of the NUM – the flying pickets had won the last battle for them and, having backed down on pit closures in 1981, she had allowed them to perceive that they would have an ongoing tactical advantage over the government




















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