NOUN
- a military vehicle (usually armored) for transporting military personnel and their equipment
How To Use personnel carrier In A Sentence
- Israeli soldiers stood near their armored personnel carriers as they took position along the Israel - Gaza border.
- These included components for air-to-surface missiles, aircraft machine guns, armoured personnel carriers, combat aircraft, torpedoes and combat helicopters.
- Tanks and armoured personnel carriers guarded government buildings as looters ran amok in the city of 18m. Times, Sunday Times
- No one said anything about armored personnel carriers organic to the armored field artillery units.
- Down on the ground he remains at his station within the commander's cupola of his personnel carrier.
- Much more interesting was the half-track armoured personnel carrier. CONFESSIONAL
- About 200 yards from his mansion, in an old barn, he even kept an armored personnel carrier.
- The Army boys had personnel carriers blockading the cross streets.
- Since then, the military has deployed armoured personnel carriers around sensitive buildings in the city, and police are said to have mostly withdrawn. Times, Sunday Times
- It's a self-deprecatory term used in the light infantry to contrast with those others who move about the battlefield in Armored Personnel Carriers, aka APC's. LPC Marksmanship*