On launch days, legionnaires swap their képis for green berets and man artillery stations on roads down which rolls the odd Peugeot or Renault.
He loosened the restrictions McChrystal had placed on the rules of engagement, giving U.S. soldiers the green light to use artillery, destroy property and defend themselves more vigorously.
Many protesters sat in their tents chewing qat, the leafy green stimulant, as the booms of artillery echoed.
A large artillery gun, painted in the national green, white and blue colours, sits in the centre of a roundabout.
Two cannons on the village green commemorate Henry Knox's passing through in the winter of 1775-76, hartillerytillery captured at Fort Ticonderoga that would be used to force the British out of Boston.
The Green Berets spent three sleepless nights holding their ground as the Iraqis lobbed artillery and mortars down on them.
Down the street, men in green uniforms, and one in a thobe, the traditional garment of Gulf men, were holding artillery weapons.
First on to the square were orderly columns of thousands of Russian troops in the green tunics and olive caps of their Soviet predecessors, many driving huge plastic replicas of the artillery pieces used in the war.
On Christmas Eve that year, the Marine artillery thought it would be a swell idea to celebrate by firing off some red and green star shells and illuminating flares to explode right over the line precisely at midnight.
