How To Use Gunnery In A Sentence

  • WHEREAS, the people of Wisconsin mourn the death of Gunnery Sergeant Richard W. Fischer; and Fischer, Richard W.
  • We often trained with the scouts and infantry of our brigade, and even shot gunnery with our brigade's reconnaissance troop.
  • Any kind of gunnery from those vantage-spots would guard the press. The Clarion
  • They awoke from a short nap and upon hearing dull thuds, attributed the noise to a nearby naval gunnery range.
  • It is analogous to what in gunnery is, I believe, called ‘aiming off’ - having your shells land a little to the side of the target.
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  • I told him I was interested in gunnery school and he told me that I could go to gunnery school after I finished OCS. "OUR TURN NEXT"
  • MacSween's first introduction to the world of customer service came in 1987, after he had completed a short commission as a Royal Navy gunnery officer.
  • ‘Old hand’ instructors used it as they put us raw recruits through our paces: square-bashing, knots and splices, gunnery practice, what to do in the event of atomic or chemical attack, and the like.
  • In the modern era, however, neither astronomy, nor surveying, nor gunnery, nor gnomonics (the making of sundials), nor most of the other disciplines represented in this collection of instruments, could be called a branch of mathematics in any straightforward or unqualified way, even though they all make some use of mathematical techniques.
  • You asked for outstanding workups, interoperability, boat work, jackstay evolutions, replenishments at sea, gunnery, air sorties, anti-submarine warfare, anti-air warfare and navigation.
  • There was heavy emphasis also on formation flying, and air-to-air gunnery as well as lots of aerobatics.
  • They awoke from a short nap and upon hearing dull thuds, attributed the noise to a nearby naval gunnery range.
  • Crews conducted numerous tasks during this period, including environmental ‘brownout’ training, blue force tracking training, fratricide prevention and gunnery.
  • Eventually, news reached the Captain, who dispatched a gunnery sergeant and a squad of Marines with non-defective handcuffs to apprehend her.
  • At gunnery, they are gate guards and amino detail.
  • The constraints for this first gunnery were primarily due to logistics and range control issues.
  • ‘The Spanish special ops team came in first and did the take down, meaning they took the ship,’ said Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt.
  • In the heat of battle no gunnery officer had the time to consult a table before aiming at an incoming bomber or shelling an enemy position.
  • The Court held in Western Australian Mining Wardens that naval gunnery could co-exist with mining.
  • Following transition to the line around the turn of the century, Reeves continued his brilliant career, tackling the complex problems of naval gunnery, torpedoes, and ordnance.
  • The jolt was like a "puppy smacked by a truck," recalled the gunnery officer, Lt. (j.g.) Dead In the Water
  • He has the memoirs of people living thousands of miles away, who heard and recorded hearing distant naval gunnery.
  • Upon this principle, Mr Tallboys had added John Hamilton Moore to his library, and had advanced about as far into navigation as he had in gunnery, that is, to the threshold, where he stuck fast, with all his mathematical tools, which he did not know how to use. Mr. Midshipman Easy
  • Even though he never took control of an aircraft while in gunnery school, Clark reveled in the opportunity to soar and dive inside of AT-6 training planes. Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II
  • For there is order in everything, and particularly in German gunnery. Adventures of a Despatch Rider
  • Arunta also won the Otranto Cup for gunnery, the Silver Platter for catering, the AIO Shield and the Combat Shield.
  • This extra weight lowered her freeboard so that she needed dead calm to proceed at speed, otherwise great green seas came aboard and the whole ship was covered in clouds of spray, making gunnery impossible.
  • Any of our superior gunnery or our laser swords could easily take him out.
  • He had made serious errors of judgement, but he had also tried to improve naval gunnery, reform the promotion system, and limit flogging.
  • He was noted for the especial care he had devoted to training his crew in gunnery, which is generally believed to have been the deciding factor in the duel with Chesapeake. FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES
  • In Arizona, a large bombing and aerial gunnery range was located between Yuma and Gila Bend.
  • Cousteau was posted to the cruiser Dupleix as a gunnery officer when World War II began. Wired Top Stories
  • The live-fire activity included combining mechanised and armoured stages of gunnery and their corresponding tactical stages.
  • The fighting officers learned to specialise: in navigation, gunnery and torpedoes.
  • To this end he demanded "unceasing" gunnery practice. Theodore Roosevelt and His Times
  • A very simple quick mission builder is included, allowing players to practise take-offs and landings, aerial-combat manoeuvring, gunnery and formation flying.
  • But Ray Cruz, a gunnery sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, was one of those rare men with a personality of hard metal—unmalleable, impenetrable, unstoppable. Dead Zero
  • A major gunnery exercise was held to expend the last of the ship's training ammunition - the tracer fire was focused on two large red inflatable targets, nicknamed the Killer Tomatoes, launched several thousand metres away from the ship.
  • By 1960, only seven remained active as target tugs and radar calibration aircraft for the gunnery ranges ashore or the fleet guns.
  • We base MI Gunnery on the combat arms gunnery in the sense that they use practice and live tables.
  • Reports from gunnery officers were more enthusiastic than those of Fighter Command.
  • Interwar gunnery and bombing training in the RAE were poor, and the service's navigation skills were no better.
  • A young gunnery officer in command of a hill post overlooking the city keeps watch of the air space above, whilst a young flying instructor at the airfield below trains teenage kamikaze pilots for their single trip to eternity.
  • Effective, accurate gunnery, a Royal Navy hallmark from the time of the Napoleonic Wars, would disappoint here.
  • 'British schoolchildren t'be trained in swordmanship an' gunnery '(' half of 'em be knowin 'how t'use a knife already, this not be a stretch') and the iPad in the UK to be renamd the iPatch. Home
  • He even amused himself in gunnery practice by warning his men against low-elevation shelling over his area, because "the pixies would degauss (demagnetize) their proximity fuses". More Than Human
  • Reports from gunnery officers were more enthusiastic than those of Fighter Command.
  • Later, after transitioning to the line, he became an expert in the arcane problems of naval gunnery.
  • Joe also spent time at an aerial machine-gunnery school where observers and gunners were trained.
  • We also used to wear gunnery qualification badges on our fatigues.
  • He had passed brilliantly in engineering; had been saved by his prompt and ready answers the consequences of a "fess" with clean black-board in ordnance and gunnery; had won a ringing, though involuntary, round of applause from the crowded galleries of the riding-hall by daring horsemanship, and he was now within seven days of the prized diploma and his commission. Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier
  • We spend a lot of time on tank gunnery, Bradley gunnery, rifle marksmanship and antitank missile systems.
  • The familiar thermal patterns that our gunners had become accustomed to during gunnery, were not as easy to identify during the day.
  • Upon this principle Mr Tallboys had added John Hamilton Moore to his library, and had advanced about as far into navigation as he had in gunnery, that is, to the threshold, where he stuck fast, with all his mathematical tools, which he did not know how to use. Mr. Midshipman Easy
  • It is doubtful whether it would have made any difference in the face of greatly superior British ship handling and gunnery.
  • We started our training in gunnery school in November, 1942. "OUR TURN NEXT"
  • The current course focuses on three major areas: turret maintenance, gunnery, and training management.
  • Gunnery was a closed corporation, and the gunner himself a guildsman. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
  • Commodore Dayka Smythe was a gunnery control officer seconded to the Royal Navy at the time of the Normandy invasion.
  • The man pictured is identified as a Master Gunnery Sergeant Burton. Media Coverage August 2009
  • During the Second World War the area was used for gunnery practice.
  • It is true also that there were many autocratic denizens of the quarterdeck whom a speck of dust would render apoplectic, but who were not in the least interested in accurate gunnery.
  • Rather, it was Europe that gathered speed and moved ahead, in gunnery and shipping, starting in the sixteenth century.

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