Sentence examples for mortar man from inspiring English sources

On April 3, Sergeant Feldbusch, a 6-foot-2-inch, thickly built mortar man, heard the shriek.

After receiving a prosthesis at Walter Reed -- Stewart was the subject of a Washington Post article last year on amputee soldiers -- he set a goal of returning to his job as a mortar man with the 3rd Infantry Division.

Jeromy D. West, 20, a mortar man who loved to fish as much as he hated to study, was killed on Nov. 25 by a sniper bullet as he stood guard on a roof in Haditha.

Deployed as a mortar man in the Iraq invasion, he returned to civilian life in 2005.

He was a builder, a bricks-and-mortar man.

Buchel is no bricks-and-mortar man - his labyrinths (through which you must crawl as well as walk) are composed of objects as diverse as cottages, shipping containers and burnt 737 airplanes.

Not all of it works: the awkward chat-show spoof that confronts mortar-man Marcelo Vallejo with ex-Gurkha Sukrim Rai, brandishing his feared "kukri" knife, say, or the final punkish musical assault, directed at the audience.

Sometimes even an American B1, a $1bn cold war bomber designed to drop nuclear weapons on the Soviet Union, was called in to attack a Taliban mortar position manned by men in pyjamas and plastic sandals.

But the Taliban fired a mortar, the men said, wounding one of the Americans.

The crack of machine gunfire competes with the steady boom of mortars as men hurry in and out the building ferrying food and ammunition to their comrades inside.

When American soldiers went to the scene the next morning, local civilians, who hadn't enjoyed the experience of having American shells landing by their homes, told the Americans who had been firing the mortars; four men were detained later that day.