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    ordnance


    1. So he had appropriated the largest house in the village and now he and his three VPs were poring over a large ordnance survey map that had been unrolled and placed on the dining room table


    2. The marine pointed at the ordnance survey map


    3. The debts which are due, either for extraordinary services, or for services either not provided for, or not paid at the time when they are performed; part of the extraordinaries of the army, navy, and ordnance, the arrears of subsidies to foreign princes, those of seamen's wages, etc


    4. with the steamer Alar off the coast of France and took on guns, ordnance, and other stores


    5. But when he re-upped, he transitioned to Ordnance


    6. “I understand you were an ordnance technician in Iraq


    7. GI Jo-Jo said, “I was an ordnance tech in Iraq


    8. My unit cleared land mines and unexploded ordnance


    9. A bunch of us techs were standing about 40 yards away from the ordnance when this dickless captain came up to me and asked if the job was done


    10. I never touched the ordnance

    11. On the morning of the incident, Sergeant Martin told his coworkers that Carson was required to sign off on a new recruit’s first assignment disarming ordnance


    12. “Did they suspect that Martin tampered with the ordnance?”


    13. “A friendly judge might grant it, based on the fact that he was an ordnance tech


    14. According to Captain Phillips, his son was killed disarming ordnance he wasn’t properly trained to handle


    15. Mike was born Sunday afternoon, and that night I packed my bags and was off to Jackson, 200 miles north on a TDY mission to support the Louisville, KY, Naval Ordnance Depot’s contracts specialist in settling a claim with Sperry Rand (it took all week, and the state capital was far more redneck than the three coastal counties which had a sprinkling of Yankees and westerners working in defense)


    16. Mike was born Sunday afternoon, and that night I packed my bags and was off to Jackson, 200 miles north on a TDY mission to support the Louisville, KY, Naval Ordnance Depot’s contracts specialist in settling a claim with Sperry Rand


    17. Under the expert direction of a FAC, who was in constant contact by FM radio with the ground commander, the strike pilots would carefully lay their ordnance in where directed


    18. The higher above the ground the pilot released his ordnance, the more chance for an error that could cause friendly casualties


    19. "Other airplanes were there with ordnance


    20. "You mean if you were the only one with ordnance to take out that gun, you'd have killed to do it? You'd kill one man to save another?"

    21. In accordance with this new method of supplying dedicated close air support, they had set up the flying schedule, who would lead, who would fly wing, what ordnance mix would be best, and what tactics to use if a Dash-K came up again


    22. The guys had to expend because they were low on fuel and didn't want to drop unexpended ordnance over the jettison area


    23. Near the end of his report, he listed with whom he had flown, when, where, with what ordnance, and the results


    24. The history of inter-service cooperation paid off in the Gulf War, where “Navy harbor defense, special warfare, explosive ordnance disposal units, and Coast Guard port security units formed the final maritime line of defense in the key ports


    25. Ordnance: collective term for guns, missiles, torpedoes and bombs


    26. Darren had an Ordnance Survey map that included the section of the estate they were due to work on


    27. When the US fighting forces had been pulled out of Iraq, the US Government had gifted most of the small ordnance to the new Iraqi peacekeepers


    28. They’re all kitted out, mainly hide-outs but we have workshops, ordnance stores, armouries, and we even have a unit set up as an operating theatre


    29. As an ordnance engineer and a qualified gunsmith in 1941, the prospect of learning about what small arms were like in 2051 was making him water at the mouth


    30. ‘’Well, what is there to say? Mike is an ex-Corps of Engineers ordnance specialist, whom I met during one of my stints as a war correspondent, while Ingrid studies Oriental history in Berlin

    31. Some positions in those units needing experience and special qualifications will have however to be filled by men, at least at first, since there are no such thing right now as a female sergeant-major or a female senior ordnance specialist


    32. As for the feared lack of women qualified on explosives and ordnance handling, the visit in the Chicago area, with candidates also streaming in from Detroit, had alleviated much that deficiency


    33. Once all ordnance is expended, then our planes will come back to Henderson Field, rearm and refuel as quickly as possible and launch a second strike


    34. ����������� �Then, I offer my services to help you modify both of these weapons, Nancy: I owned a gunsmith shop before I joined the Army as an ordnance engineer


    35. The ordnance company will immediately prepare for transport by helicopter a total of thirty 250 pound I


    36. There were still no American planes in Da Nang, except for two YC-152A and one YC-20A, something Ingrid could blame the Navy for, it being late delivering the reserves of fuel and aircraft ammunition and ordnance that her air wing would need to operate


    37. Even though the lack of fuel and aircraft ordnance had stopped her from sending her planes to Da Nang, she had ordered most of her support units to arrive in advance by sea, using the military port adjacent to the airfield


    38. With the fuel we will receive tonight and the aviation ordnance that will follow the next day, a big step will have been taken


    39. As for extra bombs for follow-on strikes, the USS VESUVIUS is supposed to arrive this evening with a load of aircraft ordnance


    40. The more powerful engines had however made it possible to increase significantly its ordnance load, noticeably concerning the carrying of giant five-ton fuel air explosives bombs

    41. When the American planes finally flew away, their ordnance and ammunition expended, they left behind an area devastated over a surface of more than five square kilometers, with the ammunition and fuel dumps still on fire and generating spectacular explosions and fireballs


    42. The planes, their wings and bellies heavily laden with ordnance, overflew the Zhongnanhai District, disappearing for a moment in the cloud of smoke and dust while dropping their loads


    43. All this was done after too many complaints from frontline pilots finally forced the Bureau of Ordnance into putting a fire under Colt’s ass for them to produce more reliable cannons


    44. We also have a single line railroad linking us with Haifa, with a train presently helping to move in our stocks of bombs and other heavy ordnance


    45. An ordnance technician that can’t do her part to lift a 500 pound bomb and hook it under a plane would be next to useless to her unit


    46. She is in charge of one of our ordnance teams


    47. While Medaris and Von Braun beamed at once with satisfaction, Commander Ross, of the Naval Ordnance Test Unit, looked with bewilderment at Ingrid


    48. How could a backwater nation develop that sort of ordnance, especially without Cluster Intelligence finding out?


    49. Daniel made his way to the records office at County Hall once he got back to Truro and requested access to the 25 inch Ordnance Survey map covering the village of Temple


    50. leave here they should be able tackle any ordnance they find






















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    Synonyms for "ordnance"

    artillery gun heavy weapon ordnance munition ordnance store

    "ordnance" definitions

    military supplies


    large but transportable armament