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thunder run
noun- during the Vietnam war, a tactic of having a small armoured convoy drive at high speeds shooting at both sides of the road to thwart ambushes by the Viet Cong; in Iraq in 2003, used by soldiers of a death or glory incursion into Baghdad US, 1983
Possibly originating in the Korean war, 1950–1953, where it was used figuratively for a final bar crawl before leaving a posting. - One, nicknamed thunder run, involved the use of armored vehicles in all-night road marches[.] — Donn Starry, Armored Combat in Vietnam, p. 71, 1982
- They put on a bit of show for the grunts that May morning, a whole line of them roaring down Highway 13 in an open-throttle “thunder run” meant to detonate any hidden enemy mines. — Peter Goldmand and Tony Fuller, Charlie Company, p. 152, 1983
- — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 512, 1990
- They were called Thunder Runs, high-speed gauntlet races by the mechanized infantry units of the army’s 1st Infantry Division along Highway 13[.] — Kregg Jorgenson, Very Crazy G.I., pp. 165–166, 2001
- [S]oldiers in the tanks called their mission Operation Thunder Run. — The Guardian, 7 April 2003
- in white-water rafting, the most treacherous rapids or the act of negotiating them US
- A thunder run is a term in white-waterr rafting for shooting the most treacherous rapids. — Randeep Ramesh, The War We Could Not Stop, p. 301, 2003
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