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gunnery

[guhn-uh-ree] / ˈgʌn ə ri /


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Matt served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as an infantry squad leader and gunnery sergeant in the Marine Corps.

From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026

Instead, the Admiralty fed information about their system to a naval officer named Frederick Dreyer, who was a capable gunnery officer but not the great inventor he fancied himself to be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

It included a live-fire gunnery exercise conducted by the guided missile frigate BRP Antonio Luna.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

In 1943 he joined the Navy, where as a seaman he carried out general ship and gunnery duties on the Flower class corvette HMS Potentilla.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

The gunnery slots framed the boys’ dumbstruck faces.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli


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