He said: "The company was short on manpower; we told them that.

We're just a little short on manpower right now.

In some ways, officials and trainers said, the entire training operation was short on manpower.

I mean, we're short enough on manpower as it is.

They were constantly expanding, and you know that their style of warfare was expensive on manpower.

It would finally depend on manpower and they had unlimited resources.

Until we go public with some form of this story, we're low on manpower.

I would have brought in some of the staff, but we were short on manpower that night.

And companies hit by lower demand cut back on production and manpower.

"They complained they were short on money and manpower," he said.