There was a time in 2007, in between Chris Kyle's deployments, when half my platoon was trapped behind a house while two Iraqi insurgent machine gunners pinned us down.
Phrases such as "Add brilliance to our country and people and gunners!" and "Enhance the principle of self-reliance!" could well be carried by state news agency KCNA.
Damian Kelleher, author of A Dog in No-man's Land I'd choose Robert Westall's The Machine Gunners.
United have the benefit of home advantage but the Gunners are in better form and are defending the trophy.
On a recent trip to southern Iraq, this thirty-something correspondent was startled to hear twenty-something gunners in the Royal Artillery openly discussing their sexuality.
On paper, it looked a good deal for the Gunners.
Carl Bridge, an Australian professor, tells how his country (plus some token New Zealand gunners) was the only American ally to send troops to the war, so desperate was its government for a strong friend to replace the weakening British.
GUNNERS secured Milan's Piazza del Duomo; paratroops took up position outside St John Lateran in Rome; and Alpine mountain troops in feathered headgear helped police raid a drug-pushers' open-air hangout in Turin.Italy is hardly Colombia.
The tanks are about to roll into France".The gunners have certainly had plenty to aim at this week.
At the Battle of Trafalgar (October 21, 1805), British naval gunners decimated the French and Spanish fleets, ending all thought of a cross-Channel invasion.
His invention of the ballistic pendulum, a device allowing the determination of the momentum of a projectile suddenly halted in its flight, enabled gunners for the first time to measure with considerable exactness the muzzle velocities of projectiles delivered by their pieces.
