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Trained as a rifleman, Anderson found himself in Vietnam’s Quang Tri province.
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Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
In the better of the two portraits, his grandfather’s face is drowning in a sheet of white, though Mandelbaum included dozens of little doodles to one side: Panzers, riflemen.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
In 1986, five riflemen from Nepal’s famed Gurkhas, a unit of the British Army, were arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport with the drug stashed inside false luggage compartments.
—Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
Advertisement Whaley had previously completed rifleman training at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina, officials said.
—Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
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Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
In the better of the two portraits, his grandfather’s face is drowning in a sheet of white, though Mandelbaum included dozens of little doodles to one side: Panzers, riflemen.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
In 1986, five riflemen from Nepal’s famed Gurkhas, a unit of the British Army, were arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport with the drug stashed inside false luggage compartments.
—Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
Advertisement Whaley had previously completed rifleman training at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina, officials said.
—Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
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“Rifleman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rifleman. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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