Sentence examples for gunship pilot from inspiring English sources

John Ruocco, a Marine Cobra gunship pilot with 75 combat missions in Iraq, died by suicide in 2005.

"Not understanding the culture ― we continue to make that mistake over and over, in Vietnam, in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Brendan Mulvaney, a former Marine helicopter gunship pilot and foreign area officer who teaches at the U.S. Air Force Air War College and the National Defense University.

"He ordered the gunship pilots to put on a display of firepower in front of tribal leaders — 'to show what the helicopters could do,' " the book said.

Predator video cameras have also for the first time been linked to the cockpits of AC-130 gunships, allowing pilots to locate moving targets on the ground faster.

For close-air support missions, planners could also call on A-10 Warthogs that fire laser-guided Maverick missiles or 30-millimeter cannons, as well as helicopter gunships whose pilots have trained extensively for urban combat operations.

Nigel Farage pilots a gunship meanwhile, later bending Cameron over a roulette table in a vaguely homoerotic scene.

Nothing much happened after Assange threw back the curtain to reveal his sensationally leaked Baghdad helicopter gunship video, with US pilots mowing down Reuters employees and young children in a burst of incompetent cannon-fire.

In 2007 a pair of independent journalists working for the Reuters news agency were killed by U.S. forces when the pilot of a helicopter gunship mistook their camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

The team was looking for the pilot of a UH-IC gunship shot down in May , 1967

America's main ally in southern Afghanistan, the governor of Kandahar, said today that he thought the American-led attack that killed and injured scores of villagers in Oruzgan Province last week would prove to have been caused by an error of the pilot of the AC-130 gunship involved.

But, modifying the account he gave at a press conference on Monday, Campbell said those Afghan forces had not directly communicated with the US pilots of an AC-130 gunship overhead.