gunnery sergeant
noun
: a noncommissioned officer in the marine corps ranking above a staff sergeant and below a master sergeant or first sergeant
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Mark Harmon starred in 19 seasons as Leroy Jethro Gibbs, a former USMC gunnery sergeant and skilled sniper who serves as a special agent in the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS).
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EW.com, 12 Oct. 2024
McDonald was an active-duty gunnery sergeant stationed with the Marine Corps Logistic Operations Group in Twentynine Palms, according to the district attorney’s office.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
In 2020, former Marine gunnery sergeant Jesse Nieto, 76, died of a heart attack without ever seeing the trial of the man who was accused of masterminding the bombing that killed his son, Petty Officer Second Class Marc Ian Nieto, 24.
—Carol Rosenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
The gunnery sergeant stayed behind after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, committing himself to saving the U.S.-allied Afghans and their families who missed the airlift.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023
The caller was an Afghan who served as an interpreter with his unit a decade ago, the retired Marine, who held the rank of gunnery sergeant at the time, told NBC News.
—NBC News, 24 Aug. 2021
Belgian Malinois is named Gunny after a Parma Heights family that donated money in honor of their father, who was a gunnery sergeant in the military.
—John Benson, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2022
The indestructible Clint Eastwood, who boasts of the longest career of any major Hollywood star in history, hit it big in 1964 but by 1986 was playing a cantankerous old gunnery sergeant in Heartbreak Ridge and ...
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 1 June 2022
Bazzi later served in the Marine Corps Reserve from 1999 to 2016, rising in rank to gunnery sergeant.
—Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2021
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EW.com, 12 Oct. 2024
McDonald was an active-duty gunnery sergeant stationed with the Marine Corps Logistic Operations Group in Twentynine Palms, according to the district attorney’s office.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
In 2020, former Marine gunnery sergeant Jesse Nieto, 76, died of a heart attack without ever seeing the trial of the man who was accused of masterminding the bombing that killed his son, Petty Officer Second Class Marc Ian Nieto, 24.
—Carol Rosenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
The gunnery sergeant stayed behind after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, committing himself to saving the U.S.-allied Afghans and their families who missed the airlift.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023
The caller was an Afghan who served as an interpreter with his unit a decade ago, the retired Marine, who held the rank of gunnery sergeant at the time, told NBC News.
—NBC News, 24 Aug. 2021
Belgian Malinois is named Gunny after a Parma Heights family that donated money in honor of their father, who was a gunnery sergeant in the military.
—John Benson, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2022
The indestructible Clint Eastwood, who boasts of the longest career of any major Hollywood star in history, hit it big in 1964 but by 1986 was playing a cantankerous old gunnery sergeant in Heartbreak Ridge and ...
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 1 June 2022
Bazzi later served in the Marine Corps Reserve from 1999 to 2016, rising in rank to gunnery sergeant.
—Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2021
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