It meant a machine gunner attacking a static target for the exercise shot over land.

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After joining the army, his first post was in Cyprus as a machine gunner in Dhekelia, the military said.

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As a heavy machine gunner, Monsoor had to stay behind the point man on foot patrols and protect the unit from attacks.

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An experienced and talented side drummer and machine gunner, he was a true warrior and served with distinction in Afghanistan, Germany and Cyprus.

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Politicians and community leaders have been trying to tamp down tensions in the wake of the murder of Rigby, a drummer and machine gunner in Britain's military, and police numbers have been boosted in vulnerable areas.

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In the back of our truck, Bulmaro Vasconcelos, a machine-gunner from Hemet, California, fired into the orchard with a heavy machine gun.

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Arriving in Spain from Brooklyn in March 1937, he'd served first as a medic, then as a machine-gunner in the Washington Battalion.

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Eusebio Lopez , 25, of Pacifica, California, was a tactics instructor at the base's Officer Candidates School and specialized as a machine-gunner.

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As the convoy growled down Highway One, the national ring road that encircles the whole country, the turret machine-gunner rotated left and right, scanning the roadside.

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Dave Long, 20, a machine-gunner from Pottstown, Pa.

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