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Artillery is a delicate skill, with cannoneers assessing topography, air pressure and even the weather at the top of the round’s parabolic arc before taking a shot.
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Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2023
Adewale served as a field-artillery cannoneer with 1st Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2021
John Corbin, a cannoneer, was among 2,900 American soldiers defending the fort from some 9,000 British and Hession troops as General George Washington watched from across the Hudson River.
—Cristina Corbin, Fox News, 5 July 2018
Depending on the season, sea kayak in the San Juan Islands in the Northwest, cannoneer in Zion, or work in a baseball game in Boston.
—Cassie Shortsleeve, CNT, 9 Aug. 2017
His assistant and cannoneer, Tanner Pletcher, a Texas Tech senior studying civil engineering, shoves the plank down the barrel and rams it home with a makeshift plunger.
—Brantley Hargrove, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2017
Guzman was deployed to Iraq in 2004 as provisional infantry at Camp Fallujah and then to Afghanistan in 2010 as an artillery cannoneer.
—Junette Reyes, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 June 2017
Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2023
Adewale served as a field-artillery cannoneer with 1st Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2021
John Corbin, a cannoneer, was among 2,900 American soldiers defending the fort from some 9,000 British and Hession troops as General George Washington watched from across the Hudson River.
—Cristina Corbin, Fox News, 5 July 2018
Depending on the season, sea kayak in the San Juan Islands in the Northwest, cannoneer in Zion, or work in a baseball game in Boston.
—Cassie Shortsleeve, CNT, 9 Aug. 2017
His assistant and cannoneer, Tanner Pletcher, a Texas Tech senior studying civil engineering, shoves the plank down the barrel and rams it home with a makeshift plunger.
—Brantley Hargrove, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2017
Guzman was deployed to Iraq in 2004 as provisional infantry at Camp Fallujah and then to Afghanistan in 2010 as an artillery cannoneer.
—Junette Reyes, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 June 2017
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Tim Walz enlisted as an artilleryman in the Nebraska Army National Guard in 1981, the day after his 17th birthday.The Editors, National Review, 8 Aug. 2024
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The sky blazed as North Vietnamese artillerymen vainly shot at the American bombers.Jeremy Redmon, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
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Who is Daniel Penny? Penny, a former Marine sergeant, served as a rifleman to Camp Lejeune from 2017 to 2021.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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Averin Valeriy Vasilievich, a 52-year-old rifleman with the 153rd Tank Regiment, took the kettle and left the trench to fetch water.David Axe, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
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The idea behind them is that these brightly-burning rounds are loaded into the ammo feed at intervals of four-to-one with the more lethal ones so that the gunner can see where the spray of shot is flying.David Szondy, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2024
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The Ukrainians to their credit shrugged off Russia’s apparent artillery superiority in Kursk, correctly surmising that befuddled gunners are useless gunners.David Axe, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
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Cassel says taking on the musketeer role ticked his box of working on productions that break with norms, even if the film is an adaptation of the French classic by Alexandre Dumas.Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
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The exhibition investigates these influences through the lens of four themes that Picasso returned to throughout his artistic career: the hero, the Minotaur, the voyeur and the musketeer.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
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The nature walk was a poignant moment in the heir to the British throne's ongoing environmental campaign, bringing attention to the work of conservation rangers who patrol the urban national park.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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The search was launched Sunday after rangers at the over 801,000-acre national park in southwestern Texas noticed a vehicle that had been parked at a trailhead for days and had not been moved, the park service said.Phil Helsel, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
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Olympic archers miss the center ring at a similar rate.David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
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The elves’ archers do a pretty good job of taking some out, but the orcs have numbers on their side — and a really nasty-looking siege engine.Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2024
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The risk, of course, is that the North Koreans will learn what those Russian marines learned recently: that their commanders are cruel, ignorant or both—and that following stupid orders from uncaring officers is bad for your health.David Axe, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Report Kursk Videos Show Ukrainian Bradley, Abrams Engage Russian Tanks Russia Lost 10,000 Troops in a Single Week: Kyiv The Russian marines then forced the Ukrainians to remove their clothing and lie down on the ground before shooting and killing nine of them, Kyiv said.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
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Freeman was a mortarman, dropping onto the French shore in 1944 with an 18-pound mortar baseplate on his chest, according to Columbus Air Force Base, which honored his service last year.Doha Madani, NBC News, 5 July 2022
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During a simulated battle scenario, the mortarmen were to drive Humvees into a valley and fire mortars at a distant target, to be designated by a white-phosphorus explosion.Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
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“Cannoneer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cannoneer. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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