Western experts agree that Macedonian troops need night-vision equipment, flak jackets, mine detection equipment, illumination rounds fired by artillery and communications equipment.
But American troops are using their 155-millimeter guns to fire special illumination rounds to light up the wild boundary region.
American Army Kiowa reconnaissance helicopters prowl the frontier, and American artillery batteries fire illumination rounds to light up the border for American patrols.
The Vietnam War inspired his first political composition, "illumination rounds," written in 1981 when he was a graduate student at Yale.
General Conway said, for instance, that if marines fire artillery shells, they will be special illumination rounds to light up terrain, not destroy targets.
After calling in illumination rounds that burned slow trails through the night, radiating pools of incandescence across the black expanse, the marines concentrated several volleys on the canyon.
Indeed, it's hard to imagine a half-dozen Afghans holding onto the Shrine without the camera tower, the thermal optics, the high-powered binoculars, the heavy machine guns, the illumination rounds, the sniper rifles and the nearby mortars and howitzers that the Marines need to defend it now.
We started launching illumination rounds up in the air.
The illumination and white phosphorus shells were slightly smaller, at 20 in (50.8 cm) long; the illumination rounds weighed 54.4 lb (24.7 kg) and the WP shells were 53 lb (24 kg).
