Fiction THE GUNNERS By Rebecca Kauffman 260 pp. Counterpoint. $26.
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In the meantime, selling Ghost Gunners has been a lucrative business.
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Sighting through their periscopes, the gunners inside the tanks shot their .
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GUNNERS PL., 13924-Carlos A. Chiari to Cary G. Butler, $318,000.
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Long-term objectives include weapon sight (FWS) developments for snipers and mounted gunners.
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A promise made Cox and Hollingsworth flew missions together as helicopter door gunners.
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In World War II, it served as a training base for antiaircraft gunners.
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The Gunners dominated the opening 20 minutes but Boro should have led by halftime.
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The Gunners By Rebecca KauffmanOut March 20Here's how it goes for most of us.
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Meet Barry Jenkins, lover of Gunners soccer and his wife, in that order probably.
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It's quite lovely, but so is Olivier Giroud, and where's that gotten the Gunners?
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The Gunners' fans know where their journey ends, too: in the round of 16.
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We shuttled to Kabul on Blackhawk helicopters, with gunners poised to return hostile fire.
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There are six seats in the cockpit — two pilots, two gunners and two engineers.
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The Gunners is one of the most moving portraits of friendship I've read, perhaps ever.
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Last night in the Champions League, the Gunners lost 2-0 at home to Barcelona.
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See, theming a wedding ceremony around the Gunners is sort of "a thing" at the moment.
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And dazzle painting was all about cleverness, because it was about fooling the U-boat gunners.
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In 1999, we wrote that the Gunners' love of their manager "would fizzle if the team flagged".
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Micro drones capable of transmitting images from inside buildings are telling the gunners exactly where to aim.
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We need people to staff the units they're in, whether it's medics or gunners or aviation specialists.
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On board the frigate TCG Barbaros, gunners fired live ammunition at mock targets floating on the waves.
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The boat captains did not direct their gunners to put on protective gear or man their weapons.
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This upgrade would allow gunners to hit targets farther away and better pierce through dust and fog.
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On the plane, the wheel gunners held steady by pushing their rear ends against the cabin wall.
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Eventually designated BQM-225s, these pilotless aircraft were merely targets for fighter pilots and anti-aircraft gunners.
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The Gunners were once famous for nurturing callow foreigners but lost patience with that approach five years ago.
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So he started "Gunners Runner's" -- an organization that collects shoes for children in his Wilmington, North Carolina community.
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The French army beat the Prussians at Valmy because of its professional gunners, rather than its citizen volunteers.
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Their aircraft had no belly gunners and were at the mercy of Luftwaffe fighters that attacked from below.
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The tire carriers, too, went upside down, leaving more room for the wheel gunners in the tight cabin.
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The Gunners had been beaten in the league in October, with Manchester United triumphing 2-0 at Old Trafford.
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Gunners stationed at 10-to-15-mile intervals triggered their own cannons each time they heard the preceding boom.
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Wilson began producing $1,200 CNC mills dubbed Ghost Gunners that would print lower receivers attachable to AR-15 rifles.
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Marines were forced to wade ashore, making them easy targets for Japanese gunners, who were prepared for the assault.
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On Thursday, he was sprinting alongside the gunners during a kickoff-return drill, yelling, "Let's go!" as he ran.
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First it was Aston Villa, who the Gunners dispatched 3-1 away from home; next, on Valentines Day, Crystal Palace.
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However, in the hopes of de-escalating the situation, the captains directed their gunners to step away from their weapons.
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John A. Olien, my great-uncle, was killed by German machine gunners, but the family never learned of the circumstances.
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No derby in world soccer is played quite as frequently as that between the Garrison Gunners and the Woolpack Wanderers.
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IN OCTOBER 1996, when Arsenal football club's latest manager began his tenure, fans of "The Gunners" could be forgiven for grumbling.
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Instead, the result means the Gunners will finish the season in sixth place, with Burnley one place behind them in seventh.
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Today was no exception to Gunners fans' frustrations as West Brom made mincemeat of Arsenal's backline, despite their massive pay checks.
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He recalled peering out his window in a moment of loneliness to watch "machine gunners" pace around the White House grounds.
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In 2018, it expanded a list of positions that women can hold to gunners on armored vehicles, snipers and infantry commanders.
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Lee Eaton and Dan Ware, the Gunners' central midfield partnership, remember the sight of household names appearing at Garrison Field, too.
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Years ago, the Gunners, a group of six neighborhood kids, grappled with the sudden pulling away of one of their core members.
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However, it's not uncommon for machine-gunners to squeeze their triggers and fire off more than the recommended four to six rounds.
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Yes, I had a few "gunners" [inmates who masturbate when female prison employees are near them] and flashers during my 21 years.
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Bergin turned the wheel left, and a second firefight ensued between the trawler's port-side machine gunners and the Swift boat crew.
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The SWAT -team members established gunners' nests on the roofs of the houses and broke sniper holes into the cinder-block walls.
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A group of banks purchased bonds worth £260m from the Gunners—on the condition that Mr Wenger would stay for five more years.
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The 52-year-old won his first Olympic medal in six Games sporting an Arsenal shirt: the English soccer club nicknamed 'the Gunners'.
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Spurs have managed to overtake Arsenal, their north London foes, even though they spend 20% less on their squad than the Gunners do.
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Gun owners and gun rights supporters can spot a phony from a mile away -- someone talking like anti-gunners think we would talk.
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Helicopter gunners opened fire from the sky and entire villages have burned, evidenced by high-resolution satellite imagery obtained by Human Rights Watch.
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The group also sells "Ghost Gunners," milling devices that can assemble parts of military-standard weapons, including the lower receiver for AR-15s.
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As latchkey kids in an often harsh environment, the Gunners found that the most effective defense against pain was the denial of it.
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While memories of the Gunners' cup exit represent a convenient excuse for this behaviour, it's a phenomenon which goes well beyond one bad result.
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Groups of six will board the Falcon in Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, a new ride — a pilot, co-pilot, two gunners and two engineers.
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Except in yesterday defeat to Chelsea he did not, with Theo Walcott leading the Gunners out and then being given the armband to wear.
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The gunners -- all sergeants -- took up positions in the tail, the open waist windows, the top turret, and down below in the revolving ball turret.
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In minutes, an avalanche of gray zombies will come pouring out of the murk, faster than all the archers and gunners can bring them down.
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Between biplanes attacking destroyers and machine gunners armored like knights, Battlefield 1 is already looking like the weirdest and most interesting Battlefield game ever made.
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Originally used as a training tool for gunners and pilots, the Rokuoh-Sha camera takes 18x24mm pictures on 35mm cine film loaded in 2.5m strip.
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A thrilling win over first-place Leicester City on Sunday has given the Gunners a real chance to claim their first Premier League title since 2004.
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Instead of taking gambles with the vehicles, I could've moved up the machine gunners to help with the advance instead of keeping them too far back.
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While the Gunners are desperately trying to make up an 11-point gap to Leicester, only three points separate West Ham from a top-four berth.
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His eight goals this season take his total for the Gunners to 49 in just 74 games since his transfer from Borussia Dortmund in January 2018.
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After Arsenal's Francis Coquelin was administered his second yellow card, the Gunners were dispatched of a player—as if the gods wanted to keep things interesting.
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All 15 Russian service members aboard were killed in the antiaircraft barrage that downed the plane, which had apparently been misidentified by Syrian gunners as Israeli.
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In an exhibit hall, companies such as Lockheed Martin and Textron showcased missiles, while Nobles and Orbital ATK showed off massive machine guns for helicopter door gunners.
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The thing about childhood friendship is that it is part of the DNA of your formation, something all the Gunners, but especially the narrator, knows too well.
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Through it, all that data could be continually funneled, sifted, integrated and passed to the captain and others on the vessel who might need it, like gunners.
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Named for the buzzing sound it made in flight, and manufactured in the thousands during World War II, it served as a remote-controlled target for gunners.
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The Houthi-run Saba news agency quoted a pro-Houthi military source as saying late on Friday that artillery gunners targeted Shadadi after they pinpointed his location.
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The waist gunner station -- because gunners stand up in the middle of the aircraft -- was the most dangerous job on the aircraft because they were so easily targeted.
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Today, however, fans of the Gunners, the Blues and the Red Devils must worry that they might not get their hands on the trophy again for many years.
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France striker Lacazette then doubled the lead for the Gunners just before halftime, volleying in a low ball from Hector Bellerin on the right side of the goal.
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You had respect for what they did and how they did it, particularly the gunners who were in the waist of the aircraft standing in an open window.
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Chivas manager Matias Almeyda utilized a young starting XI that was at first eager to impress with high-pressure soccer, but later faltered defensively against the superior Gunners roster.
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The Gunners paid £40m for Real Madrid's playmaker Mesut Özil and £19993m for Barcelona attacker Alexis Sánchez the year after; they won consecutive FA Cups in 2014 and 2015.
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Though they lost out on the title to Leicester City, the Gunners made 12 more television appearances than the champions and received around £7m more in Premier League payments overall.
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But the origin of military drones is usually dated to the development of uncrewed, remote-controlled aircraft for use as targets by anti-aircraft gunners after the first world war.
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He calls Stoke "nobodies" after they beat Arsenal 3-2 having led 3-0 at half-time, while Harry Kane is "lucky" after netting two goals to beat the Gunners.
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"AAVs bring a lot to that fight," 2nd Lt. Nicholas Pierret, an officer in charge on a live-fire range, told Insider as the gunners practiced putting fire down range.
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Arsenal has ended months of speculation about the future of manager Arsene Wegner when it was reported that he would stay on as manager of The Gunners for two more years.
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The cacophony was dizzying, intoxicating, and oppressive once the artillery gunners on the train started drawing a bead on my position via the machine guns that were set up around me.
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They fired all the way coming in, and of course our gunners were pouring out as much lead as they could to dissuade them, but they never veered in the slightest.
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M-1 tank gunners, for example, can train inside a full-scale, computerized mock-up of their station called the Advanced Gunnery Training System, which comes inside a large transportable container.
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Having failed to maintain their title challenge over the last few months, the Gunners' home games have been characterised by swathes of empty seats and the occasional, impotent outburst of #WengerOut.
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Alexis Sánchez, Theo Walcott and Mesut Ozil provided first-half goals for Arsenal that gave the Gunners their first league win over Chelsea in five years, a 288-21 home victory.
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Arsenal's Premier League game at Manchester City scheduled for Wednesday was postponed after the owner of Greek club Olympiakos, who the Gunners played in the Europa League, had contracted the virus.
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At noon on Monday, when the Germans were bringing forward reserve divisions in the neighborhood of the Moronvilliers range of hills, the French gunners got the exact range with telling effect.
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Arsenal took an adventurous route in Bulgaria, trailing Ludogorets Razgrad by two early goals before a goal by Mesut Ozil in the 88th minute gave the Gunners a 3-2 win.
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"We heard that the gunners were so tired from killing, they asked for chairs and chairs were provided," O'Brien had written, in a scene that made reference to Beckett and Musil.
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The friend group in The Gunners are brought together for a funeral, not for a reunion — but it's still an occasion for reflection on the way the years have shaped their bonds.
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The Gunners came back with a goal of their own in the second half, a sweet finish from Mohamed Elneny, and it seemed like maybe they had something left in the tank.
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The 24-year-old Costa Rica international, who scored three goals in 19 Premier League games for the Gunners last season, is a versatile player who can play across the front line.
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They were about 30 men in all, riflemen and machine-gunners reinforced with scouts, a mix of original platoon members and replacements who filled gaps left by the wounded and the dead.
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Machine-gunners assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force-Crisis Response Africa move toward an objective area during a Military Operation on Urbanized Terrain exercise in Alicante, Spain, on March 29.
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They&aposre the gunners, you know, they&aposre the go-getters who want to make their case and make their name, there&aposs no bigger prey than the president of the United States.
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Here's the bottom line: Defense Distributed has reportedly sold thousands of its Ghost Gunners, and the machines produce weapons that are functionally indistinguishable from those used in mass shootings and on the streets.
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The Gunners did get their equalizer, though, six minutes after the restart when Mkhitaryan was allowed to run at the United box before beating David de Gea with a well-placed low shot.
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On the scenes aboard the battle station, however, there's a number of elements that are shared with A New Hope: the gunners, the UI or the screens, the tiny details in staff wardrobe.
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Yet Wenger was belligerent afterwards, blaming referee Tasos Sidiropoulos for killing off his side with the sending off of skipper Koscielny, whose injury shortly after halftime in Munich prompted a similar Gunners collapse.
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With results elsewhere proving favourable, the Gunners are now near certs for Champions League football, and they could yet nip ahead of their North London rivals for runner-up spot in the league.
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Arsenal Manager Arsène Wenger's 50th North London derby ended with a fifth defeat in six away games for the Gunners, leaving Arsenal six points out of a Champions League slot in sixth place.
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Few snipers were still active, and most of our team was semi-automatic riflemen and machine gunners, plus a small army of medics—without saying a word, we'd re-equipped ourselves for an assault.
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In the event a Marine infantry squad takes enemy contact, the squad leader will order the machine-gunners to relocate themselves to an area to return fire and win the battle for weapon superiority.
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Ever determined to serve his country, the statement said, Stratton reenlisted in 1944, served out the war and was discharged, once again, in December of 1946 at the rank of Gunners Mate Second Class.
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The characters in Rebecca Kauffman's "The Gunners" exhibit the range of personalities that you'd expect from a random sampling of Middle Americans: nice people, abrasive people, the churchy, the alcoholic, the educated, the not.
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If the gunners failed to bring down the drone, an operator on deck could send a radio signal that released a small parachute, allowing the drone to float down, ready for pickup and reuse.
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See THE GUNNERS OF REMEDIOS LAUREN OYLER Lauren Oyler is a contributing editor at Broadly and a writer whose work has appeared in or on the Nation, Eater, Gawker, the Lifted Brow, and other places.
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I fired rockets as fast I as I could, while gunners raced out of cover to drop ammunition crates around me, then resumed laying down withering machine gun fire to suppress the encroaching British infantry.
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In addition to flying in daytime, American crews flew en masse, and "they had five or six gunners in each plane, and lots of firepower, so the Germans couldn't get close to them," he said.
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The men – three of which were machine gunners and one was an anti-tank man – spent two years training together as part of the weapons platoon of Bravo Company in San Diego before deploying to Vietnam.
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In 1983, Ronald Reagan became first U.S. president to enter the DMZ — with South Korean artillery gunners standing poised to fire if necessary to protect him — and every president, barring one, has made the trip since.
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The TSLIB were first trained as infantrymen, but the Australian army soon realized the versatility of the 'Island Diggers,' and they soon also took on the roles of shipwrights, boot makers, carpenters, plumbers, signalers and gunners.
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Against the Raptors, the Cavaliers went with 3-point gunners Kevin Love and/or Channing Frye up front for almost all of the fourth quarter, trying to take advantage of Jonas Valanciunas's lack of foot speed.
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After the complete collapse of their title tilt, the Gunners are a mere five points ahead of Manchester United in the fourth and final Champions League spot – and Louis van Gaal's side have a game in hand.
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Every summer, a few weeks before the start of the season, that year's captains of the Gunners and the Wanderers meet in a pub for one of the league's most enduring traditions: the picking of the teams.
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Granted, he kept the Gunners at the right end of the league table—and above local rivals Tottenham Hotspur—each season while selling off his best players: between 2000 and 2013 his net transfer spend was just £1m.
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Low-altitude defense officers and gunners with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 163 (VMM-163) (Reinforced), which is currently deployed aboard the Boxer with the 11th MEU, trained with the system before the unit deployed, Defense Department photos show.
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It's the dynamic that would naturally adhere to one of the NBA's true gunners—he might cost your team a game while being the only reason you had a chance of winning that game in the first place.
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Oh boy… He opens Instagram and is met with 300,000 notifications on a picture where he bigs up "my section gunners" and confirms he is the first Canadian artist to be signed to BBK, finished with Union Jack emoji.
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SOUTH CHINA SEA (Reuters) - Japan's largest warship steamed into the South China Sea this week in defiance of Chinese assertiveness, with Asian military guests on board to witness helicopters looping over the tropical waters and gunners blasting target buoys.
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But before hanging with the Gunners on Sunset Strip, and his current gig, performing in the modern lineup of The Pagans, Duguay was a punk rocker from Winnipeg, Canada who played in bands Personalty Crisis and the short-lived Lowlife.
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These improvements include integrating 3rd Generation Forward Looking Infrared sensors for Commanders and Gunners sights, spot trackers for dismounted soldiers to identify targets and an upgraded chassis with increased underbelly protections and a new ammunition storage configuration, Army developers tell Warrior.
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History-maker Bradley, though, was impressed by his new charges, who gave Arsenal a fright, scoring twice through Gylfi Sigurdsson and Borja Baston, as the Gunners had to play the last 20 minutes without Granit Xhaka, dismissed for a trip.
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Theo Walcott doubled the Gunners' advantage, finishing a slick passing move with a close-range finish 10 minutes later, before Olivier Giroud came off the bench and scored a sublime third to seal his side's second win in seven games.
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It means very low latency, which, in turn, means it's easier to play games that require fast reaction times — like many of the run 'n gunners, fighting games, and platformers made for the Genesis, which came out in the late '80s.
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Visitors will also be able to get in the six-seat cockpit (aka, a simulator ride) as pilots, gunners or flight engineers, to feel what it's like to hurdle through space, as well as control the ship and fire its cannons.
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Although Huddersfield are three points clear of 18th-placed Southampton, their run-in is difficult with trips to Manchester City and Chelsea and a home game against Arsenal, which will be Arsene Wenger's final match in charge of the Gunners.
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Drivers and gunners need to be scanning in all directions, looking out for suspicious elements: piles of trash or dead goats that might be hiding bombs, people holding cellphones that might be wireless detonators, children with their fingers in their ears.
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The 13 crew members consist of: a pilot, a copilot, a navigator, a fire control officer, an electronic warfare officer, a flight engineer, a loadmaster, an all-light-level TV operator, an infrared detection set operator, and finally — four aerial gunners.
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Bagram Airfield personnel outfitted reporters, staff, Secret Service agents and the vice president with bulletproof vests and Kevlar helmets, and we filed into four heavily armed Chinook helicopters with machine gunners peering out the four corners of each long-bodied aircraft.
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The Gunners are now two points behind Mauricio Pochettino's men and – with Arsenal playing relegated Aston Villa at home and Tottenham travelling to Newcastle – there's a chance they could still usurp their old foes on the final day of the campaign.
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He spoke of Navy aviators hurled from the decks of pitching aircraft carriers, of Navy gunners blazing into the silhouettes of onrushing kamikazes, of trapped Marines battling overwhelming Chinese hordes in a breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea.
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While pieces such as Lewis's geometric machine gunners for the cover of the periodical Blast (July 1915) and Severini's charcoal drawing "Flying Over Rheims" (1915) toe the Futurist/Vorticist line of technological dynamism, Severini's "Still Life: Bottle + Vase + Journal + Table" (ca.
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It has become practically mandatory in the modern era for the Gunners to either start or finish the season strongly, with a good run at the beginning or end salvaging a campaign which has gone to shit half way through.
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In this the game is echoing (sometimes explicitly) the most famous and dubious scenes in Enemy at the Gates, which depicts "blocking detachments" of Soviet machine gunners who massacre retreating soldiers There's reason to believe that none of these assertions is entirely accurate.
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Arsenal and Liverpool have faltered in recent weeks to slip out of title contention behind runaway leaders Chelsea but United have found some momentum and now trail the fourth-placed Gunners by two points and the Reds, who are fifth, by one.
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Arsenal Day was inspired by the Gunners record breaking unbeaten run in the 2004 season and despite the fact the London-based club has not won a Premier League trophy since 2004, Abdulsalam says the trophy drought has taught fans an important lesson.
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They have had ample chances to do so in the last few seasons, having come up against Moyes and Van Gaal's teams in the league at times of glaring vulnerability; United's home games against the Gunners have often felt like doomed last stands.
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Despite his violent protests, he was medevaced "to the rear" for rabies treatment, which meant taking two helicopter or fixed-wing trips on the "death run" from the Khe Sanh airfield as North Vietnamese gunners bracketed aircraft and the airstrip with nonstop shelling.
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The two leaders embraced warmly as they arrived at a U.S. war cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach, where 2,500 American troops were killed by German gunners and artillery on June 6, 1944, the first day of the Allied effort to drive the Nazis out of France.
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And while Özil remains a fixture in Germany's lineup at the Euros, Arsenal Manager Arsène Wenger openly criticized the sanctioning of back-to-back Copa Américas, saying last year's tournament led to the hamstring injury that dogged Sánchez for much of the Gunners' season.
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" By suggesting that people learn to use a gun before carrying it out in public, he said, my colleague and I "probably did more harm to constitutional carry and the fight there than any other people out there, the anti-gunners or anyone else.
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The German gunners, The Baltimore Sun reported many years later, had tried to wave him away, but he ran on, only to perish in a burst of heavy automatic fire — the last soldier of any nationality to die in the conflict — at 19183 a.m.
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It does not always quite work out — this year, the Gunners are nine points clear in the league table — but Gibbons notes with some pride that in recent years, the league has regularly been up for grabs on the last day of the season.
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The Ivorian, who moved to the Gunners for a club record $94 million in the summer, curled a stunning effort into the top corner in the 66th minute against West Ham to make the score 2-1 and effectively seal his side&aposs victory.
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Persistent fan anger at Wenger — whose tenure has been a model of consistent excellence and persistent near-misses — has recently bubbled over after the Gunners fell off the pace in the Premier League race and were thumped out of the Champions League this week.
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Commentary: In Qatar and Saudi Arabia's fight, Iran's the real winner Japan's largest warship steamed into the South China Sea this week in defiance of Chinese assertiveness, with Asian military guests on board to witness helicopters looping over the tropical waters and gunners blasting target buoys.
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Swansea at the Emirates to learn about the inner workings of Arsenal Fan TV. The Gunners hadn't won a home league game against Swansea since 2012, and I was secretly hoping I'd be present for a few spectacular meltdowns – or perhaps even have one of my own.
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And yet Kauffman has done something remarkable with "The Gunners," the now grown group of childhood friends who adopted the moniker from the mailbox of the abandoned home they used as an after-school squat: She's made spending time with them not just tolerable, but delightful.
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In a pit stop on Earth, four "wheel gunners" attack the tires, using a pneumatic wrench to pop off the wheel's single lug nut; one tire carrier pulls off the used donut, another pops the fresh one on, and the gunner sticks the lug nut back on.
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Hoping to get something started in a 7-7 game, Benjamin recovered the ball and tried to cut back through his own team's end zone to find room for a return, but he was tracked down by the Patriots' gunners and crushed to the ground for a safety.
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Barring perhaps Monaco, these were all fantastic sides at the very peak of their powers (though it might seem outlandish now, Milan were Serie A winners when they took on the Gunners and boasted the talents of Clarence Seedorf, Mark van Bommel, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Robinho in his pomp).
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Had it not been for a ludicrous red card for Robin van Persie for kicking the ball away half a second after the ref had blown his whistle, the Gunners might well have progressed at the Nou Camp and their Round of 16 hoodoo might never have begun.
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"Praising the People's Army for its excellent operation of modern large-caliber long-range multiple rocket launchers and tactical guided weapons, he said that all the service members are master gunners and they are capable of carrying out duty to promptly tackle any situation," the KNCA paraphrased Kim as saying.
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Some people claimed he was indifferent to blacks, but it wouldn't fly: he not only hired plenty as prosecutors in the DA's office but, on war service in the navy, he had brought in four blacks as gunners on one of his ships and resolutely refused his captain's orders to demote them.
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He played soccer, too, of course, both as part of his formal sporting education — with a youth team near his family home and then, from age 9, at the Gunners' academy — and as part of its informal equivalent, the technical, intense matches on the five-a-side field in the East London neighborhood where he grew up.
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