Sentence examples for gunship crew from inspiring English sources
Pinned down, McCarthy radioed an AC-130 gunship crew circling above, calling in "danger close" airstrikes.
Hal Koster, one of the restaurant's two owners, served three tours as a gunship crew chief in Vietnam.
On Friday, the general in charge of US forces in the Mideast and South Asia, Joseph Votel, said the strike was "not a war crime", since a US AC-130 gunship crew did not realize it was striking a hospital.
Yet the inquiry found no combatants were firing on US or Afghan forces from the hospital, raising questions about how the gunship crew could have considered it a hostile staging area.
A US gunship crew was cleared to attack two insurgents on the ground even though the pilots had reported that the men were trying to surrender, the leaked Iraq war logs reveal.
But he also said that the gunship crew, before the first salvo, relayed its targeting coordinates back to a headquarters in Bagram airfield, which failed to realize that the coordinates corresponded to a protected facility.
South African citizens serving in the Israeli and British armed forces have been threatened with prosecution.Sometimes foreign mercenaries have been saviours for instance in Sierra Leone, when a privately hired helicopter-gunship crew helped to save the capital, Freetown, from falling into the hands of hand-chopping rebels in 2000.
A fire mission by an AC-130 also differs from strikes by attack jets in that the weapons on an AC-130 are guided by coordination between the JTAC and the gunship's crew.
The gunships have a crew of four twoo pilots, a gunner and an engineer.
staff as they fled for safety; the crew of the American gunship had opened fire on a large building, mistaking the hospital for a Taliban site.
