Word: turretful
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...Friday members of Charlie Rock burst into the southern city of Nasiriyah, fully expecting a battle with Iraqi forces. As their convoy roared toward the Tallil airfield south of Nasiriyah, the brigade's gunners and dismount crews oiled their M-16s and readied the grips on their .50-cal. turret machine guns. But the brigade commanders ordered the convoy to stop its advance. Mitchell and his unit sat on a highway shoulder for hours. When they finally arrived to seize their main target--the Tallil airfield, an Iraqi military installation--the company found only a weed-strewn apron of rusting...
...gunner, whose job is to feed in rounds, making sure they don't tangle. Below and ahead but out of sight unless he leans back so far he is lying almost flat is the driver. In here, the team commands its own little world. This button swings the turret around. The switch in front of the gunner fires an optically tracked wire-guided missile. But the outside world is harder to control. Out there, over the Iraqi border, are enemies who will want to kill these Americans if war comes. And now protesters at home are demanding that the troops...
...settlement so local children don't have to risk the roads each morning. But not every danger can be guarded against. On a recent afternoon, a rocket-propelled grenade hit the army guard post at the edge of Kfar Darom, punching a grapefruit-size hole in the reinforced concrete turret where a soldier usually stands watch. This is the Cohen family's welcome home...
...turret will be on display in a giant tank at the Mariners'Museum in Newport News, Va., for at least the next decade. That's how long it will take to slowly remove rust and organic matter encrusting the turret and restore the parts...
Sixteen sailors died when the Monitor sank. Scientists found the human remains in the raised turret, along with a pocketknife, a leather boot and a coat button. They hope to find more artifacts when they clean out the tons of silt that remain in the turret...