ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine—An American coach identified to his Ukrainian college students merely as Texas rigorously drew on a college blackboard the define of a Russian T-72 tank and a plan of the encircling space, and defined how he had ambushed it with a Javelin missile earlier this month.
Then he picked up the missile and its charcoal-grey command launch unit, or CLU, displaying to some dozen Ukrainian troopers the proper firing positions. One other U.S. coach, Mark Hayward, a 53-year-old retired U.S. Special Forces operator from Alaska, stepped in with recommendation on how one can function the antitank weapon in various climate and light-weight situations.
