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...shot of the company Christmas party. Fortunately, no one in either of their units was killed during the deployment. A gunner in Heitkotter's unit received a Purple Heart medal after being struck in the arm by shrapnel from an IED that exploded...
...as a pilot in the animal damage control program, he figures they shot upward of 900 coyotes from his airplane.With a gunner on board, Brand said he would drop down to about 15 yards off the ground, within shotgun range, slowing his speed to...
...they shared on their last visit were exchanged for a giant tent."It tastes like drawdown," said Pvt. Garret Denne, a gunner from 3rd Squad, 1st Platoon, Charlie Company, 1/34th BSTB, attached to 1-94 CAV. "You can sense it in the air...
...hang of it-I've gotten a lot better driving the MRAP," said Spc. Anthony Hendren, a combat engineer assigned as a gunner for the MRAP. Nelson drives, also with Charlie Company, 1/34th Brigade Special Troops Battalion attached to the 1st...
...in Baghdad, he described his time as doing a little bit of everything, going on patrols and raids, pulling duty as a gunner and going out on the streets with military intelligence."Being in a war zone, you grow up pretty quick," Carr said...
...mines near Crosby-Ironton before World War II broke lose. He enlisted in the Navy and was assigned to the Yorktown as a gunner's mate. The Yorktown arrived in Pearl Harbor on May 27, 1942, after a bomb struck her in the Battle of the Coral...
...by units from throughout the Army in one of the biggest, most realistic war games in the world. "My newest job is as a gunner, which is a very open-ended job with lots of adventures," said Eastvold, a 1997 graduate of Little Falls Community...
...It wasn't supposed to be a high-threat port," said Nathan Bair, a fire controlman on the Cole. Kevin Benoit, a gunner's mate, said the sailors "weren't given any kind of instruction that it was dangerous" to refuel in Aden. "Nothing...
...Flak exploded in the bay. The plane, engulfed in flame, fell. Agostino and the pilot, navigator, radio operator and a gunner bailed out and parachuted. Four others did not survive. On the ground was a crowd of irate German civilians waving guns...
CAMP MORGAN, Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Back in Minnesota, Sgt. Joe Winters of Little Falls is a gunner on one of the 2nd Battalion, 194th Armor's 67-ton M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks. Photos Here at this U.S. outpost north...