(1) During the hearings, a colleague of Pritchard's, Rifleman Jeffrey Stanley, said he had heard over the radio that soldiers at Sangar could see people on the road.
(2) His family said in a statement: "Dan was a brave rifleman and he died doing the only profession he ever considered.
(3) For example, a single enemy rifleman firing from a hospital window would warrant a response against the rifleman only, rather than the destruction of the hospital,” the manual states.
(4) The most recent soldier memorialised is Samuel John Bassett, a rifleman killed last November by an explosion in Sangin, the town in Helmand which has become infamous as the most dangerous place for Nato soldiers in Afghanistan.
(5) "He saved lives in 2 Rifles time after time and for that he will retain a very special place in every heart of every rifleman in our extraordinary battle group.
(6) Rifleman Matthew Wilson, 21, was hit on his helmet during an ambush in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan , last October.
(7) Oddly for a man who spent so much time writing about historical battles in his fiction, in his own wartime memoir, Quartered Safe Out Here (1993), with its hard-bitten opening sentence, "The first time I smelt Jap was in a deep dry-river bed in the Dry Belt, somewhere near Meiktila," he told of the war as seen by a rifleman in an infantry platoon and ignored the big picture.
(8) On watch, a rifleman scoured the terrain – no sign of life, no shadows, shots from snipers, nowt to note or report.
(9) On New Year's Day 1914, a respected weekly literary publication carried a long article penned by an author referred to only as A Rifleman.
(10) According to MacMillan, Marinetti's vision appealed to those like A Rifleman on the radical left who wanted to "bust up the old world".
(11) It was not, as A Rifleman had hoped, an opportunity for physical and moral development, but a conflict of unparalleled destruction.
(12) Medical training aimed at the rifleman, aidman, and unit operational level for a Ranger Battalion is described.
(13) After an early triumph as a British TV heartthrob playing Mellors in Ken Russell’s Lady Chatterley and steely rifleman Richard Sharpe – a role that stirred a generation’s loins – he built a Hollywood career out of playing villains.
Soldier
Definition:
(n.) One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.
(n.) Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.
(n.) A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction.
(n.) The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.)
(n.) One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest. See Termite.
(v. i.) To serve as a soldier.
(v. i.) To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are the E-1 to E-3 pay grades and soldiers in combat arms units.
(2) But in a country with an unemployment rate of nearly 70%, including many former child soldiers, there are no certainties.
(3) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
(4) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
(5) The soldiers allegedly launched the attack after one of their comrades was killed when he became involved in an argument over a woman near Fizi hospital.
(6) He is telling others at the checkpoint not to enter.” The images suggest Hashlamon turned to face a soldier with a radio – who according to eyewitnesses was a commander – who approached from the left from the photographer’s point of view.
(7) Bill O’Reilly has told different versions of an encounter at gunpoint that he claims to have experienced while reporting in Argentina – one involving a single armed soldier and the other detailing several troops.
(8) "This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group.
(9) Eleven US soldiers have been convicted in the Abu Ghraib scandal.
(10) How World of Warcraft train future soldiers One odder digression sees the two discussing whether or not MMORPGs, video games like World of Warcraft, are evil.
(11) Hours after the firefight ended, and just a few dozen kilometres away, a "very reliable" member of the Afghan local police turned his gun on two British soldiers.
(12) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
(13) He saw a soldier aim his weapon’s laser sight at the al-Atrashes’ Volkswagen “like he was preparing to shoot”.
(14) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
(15) "Only one bullet that we're aware of hit, the second Australian returned fire and critically injured and possibly killed the Afghani," said Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, who identified his injured soldier as an instructor from the officer academy.
(16) One hundred fifty-two cases among active duty Army soldiers were identified.
(17) The last American soldier held captive by the Afghan Taliban has been released, after the US government agreed to free five Afghan detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba to the custody of the Qatari government, US officials said.
(18) We talked of his time as a soldier in the first world war.
(19) You can bear witness to the gallantry of our military in Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur and many other parts of the world, but in the matter of the insurgency our soldiers have neither received the necessary support nor the required incentives to tackle this problem.” He added: “We believe that there is faulty intelligence and analysis.
(20) "There are definitely green men there today, they aren't hiding that they're from Crimea, from Russia," she said, referring to the unmarked soldiers Russia deployed to take control of Crimea last month, who are popularly known as "little green men".