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gate guard
noun
A decommissioned aircraft, artillery piece, or tank, displayed near the entrance to the area.
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I took this photo of an interior wall of a gate guard tower at "Victory Base" in Baghdad in 2004.
After the war, Cobra King was recovered from the battlefield and displayed as a "gate guard" out in the open at several U.S. bases in Germany, he said.
As one example, Major Schmeling pointed to a police officer who a year ago was a lowly patrolman and gate guard.
He had failed basic training as an Israeli Defence Force commando, and his nearest approximation to spy work was as a lowly gate guard for the airline El Al in New York in the early 70s.
It was Ken Hollywood, the gate guard at MGM who knew everyone by name.
The on-premise security is always present at the front gate guard booth and in the dispatch office.
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Entry is through an imposing gate guarded by militia jeeps sporting anti-aircraft machine guns.
Within a few hundred feet we came to a high walled gate guarded by American soldiers; we were entering the Green Zone by the back door.
She groggily unlocks the security gate guarded by the family Doberman and waits in the glare of the Pemex filling station for the bus to the border.
A metal security gate guards the small courtyard, while drab curtains and collapsed Pampers boxes cover the windows, blocking the summer sun.
Walk up four flights, pass a gate guarded by three little girls, and step through someone's kitchen at the end of the hall.
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