There are no windows and only one way out, past a sentry post manned 24 hours a day.
They were both operators, commandos, men who have eliminated a sentry on a dark cold night with a silenced Uzi submachine gun in their grips.
Every third man along the trench was a sentry.
To make matters worse for the Soviets, the Afghans had established a second line of defence which consisted of seven posts, "each manned by four sentries armed with a machine gun, a mortar, and automatic rifles".
The commander of a 10-man local militia, he would bribe a sentry, throw a mattress over the barbed-wire fence, and clamber in and out, arms loaded with weapons, for two hours until the next sentry arrived.
As we enter the Delacorte, a raggedy group of rustics are banjo-picking and fiddling bluegrass music (composed by the comedian Steve Martin, with additional arrangements by Greg Pliska) in front of a large wooden stockade, manned by armed sentries.
Each post was commanded by a European agent and manned with armed sentries to enforce taxation and punish any rebels.
On the night of July 27th, a sentry in a U.N. brigade saw some men enter Koloni's house.
McCauley, concerned for citizens of the town, quickly responded by organizing a group of men into what was known as the "Home Guard," which formed a sentry that ensured security from possible attacks, until the arrival of additional military protection.
The same is true for a man in another photo, who sits erect in a lawn chair with a shotgun on his lap, like a sentry keeping watch.
