The soldier and writer Pedro Barrantes Maldonaldo noted that by 1540 Gibraltar's north-west bastion (presumably referring to North Bastion) had only four guns, while the castle's few guns were all dismounted (and therefore unusable), and there were no gunners.
With no individual human being to credit for the hit -- no swaggering flying ace, no deadeye tail gunner, no squinting rifleman -- it felt like a pure projection of my will, of my own continuing anger about terrorism.
Although he impresed last season, becoming the Gunners' No 1, it has been far from a joyous campaign this term.
First, there was no apparent physical contact between the rear position and the forward line, as would have been evident if the Afghan force were heavily involved in the fighting: no replacements were moving up, no ammunition bearers resupplying gunners, no wounded coming back.
Sir Alex Ferguson's relationship with Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger in the "Pizzagate" years - which began when Ferguson was struck by flying foodstuffs hurled from Arsenal's dressing room in 2004 - only truly thawed once the Gunners were no longer deemed a serious threat to Manchester United's supremacy.
Losing it - but avoiding losing it all No way will Gunner (in his early seventies) go to the assisted-living facility where "like a roach motel, the patients check in but don't check out".
Gray, of Greater Manchester, served as a gunner in No 2 Squadron of the RAF Regiment, protecting airfields and aircraft, and was stationed in Baghdad in 2004.
Hughes came to the Knicks with a reputation as a gunner with no conscience, and his Knicks debut did little to change that image.
Gray was a gunner in No 2 Squadron of the RAF Regiment, protecting airfields and aircraft, and was stationed in Baghdad in 2004.
But the early modern gunner had no provable rationale for his preferences, and in the 18th century European armies standardized on fine-grained musket powder for cannon as well as small arms.
