Word: turreted
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...near the airport when they were forced to pull over because a humvee was having engine trouble. It said one of the soldiers on the ground said he thought he heard gunfire and alerted the others through their headsets. The gunner of the first humvee quickly rotated in his turret to face the road and fired on a car that was speeding past the convoy. That car turned out to be Mehdi...
...what the aircraft must be able to do - that "the aircraft is supposed to have 360 degrees field of fire with a defensive weapon," says Bianca, who has spent 1,300 hours flying the V-22 over the past eight years. "I don't care if it's a turret, you stick it out of a window or you patch it on with bubblegum, but we've got to find a way to do that." Bianca, 40, told TIME that the current rear gun is "not the answer," and that Marines are planning on installing a better gun eventually...
...Wallace and Bennett, who was left badly wounded along with another soldier in the room, Jesse Hernandez. More blasts outside sent flames and smoke coursing through the darkening courtyard, where Falter and Chism had been standing guard. One of the humvees parked there was ablaze, and rounds from the turret gun began cooking off as the attackers rushed away...
Scherry was deployed to Anbar province in March 2007. He died after only about a month there. The Marines who broke the news to his mother said there had been an accident. Scherry had been riding in the turret of a humvee when he reached to get a low-hanging wire out of the way. Electric current killed...
...news anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously injured on Sunday in a roadside bombing while traveling with a U.S. army convoy in Taji, an insurgent stronghold north of Baghdad. Woodruff and Vogt had left their U.S. Army Humvee and had climbed into the turret of an Iraqi armored vehicle to begin filming when a powerful, remote-controlled explosion ripped through their armored vehicle. ABC news reported that the group then came under fire from insurgents. Once the firefight stopped, Woodruff and Vogt were rushed by helicopter to a U.S military hospital near Baghdad. Doctors judged that Woodruff...