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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  ...U.S. Army had established an enlisted Hospital Corps in 1887. Navy Surgeon General J.R Tyron and subordinate physicians lobbied the Navy administration to tak ...men is the only US Navy warfare device awarded solely by a US Marine Corps General Officer. This awarding authority cannot be delegated to US Navy Officers. H
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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  ...fly with submarines and [[PT boat]]s and conducted [[antiaircraft]] firing practice in [[Block Island Sound]], [[Brooklyn, New York]], before shifting south to ...in that area on [[antisubmarine]] warfare (ASW) exercises and night battle practice, Bogue and her consorts honed their respective and collective skills in tho
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• USS Thomas J. Gary (DE-326)
  The ships maintained a condition of modified general quarters and stationed armed guards on shore. A detail headed by ''Thomas J ...Guantanamo Bay; and, in August, participated in support operation for the practice firing of Polaris missiles by nuclear submarine Daniel Webster (SSBN-626).
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• USS Wainwright (DD-62)
  ...equipped with eight {{convert|21|in|mm|0|adj=on}} [[torpedo tube]]s. The [[General Board of the United States Navy]] had called for two [[anti-aircraft gun]]s ...She returned to Newport on the 18th and, eight days later, resumed torpedo practice near Vineyard Sound for the remainder of the month. She put into [[Boston,
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• Welding Rod
  ...or holding human skin together at surface cuts. It has also been used as a general purpose paper cement.<br/>
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• Grilled Cheese Sandwich
  ...evenly melted cheese, and avoid burnt bread, cook at low heat (which is a general rule in roasting) – this gives the cheese time to warm up and melt, rathe There are a variety of specialized Sandwich toaster and general-purpose indoor grills (aka, sandwich press, panini press).
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• Wood Gas
  ...or |first= Charles Fayette |title=Internal-Combustion Engine in Theory and Practice - Vol.1 |year= 1985 |publisher= The MIT Press |location= Cambridge |isbn= 0 Against general belief, exhaust gas emission levels from an internal combustion engine is s
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• AT4
  <!-- General specifications --> ...9mm Parabellum|9mm]] or [[20 mm caliber|20mm]] [[tracer ammunition]]. Both practice cartridges are unique to their respective weapons, with their trajectory ma
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• 16"/45 caliber Mark 6 gun
  <!-- General specifications --> ...elined]] or replaced—was 395&nbsp;shells when using AP, although if only practice shots were used this figure was significantly higher: 2,860. By comparison,
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• 203 mm /53 Italian naval gun
  <!-- General specifications --> ...ith centerlines only one meter apart.<ref name="Campbell"/> This mounting practice conserved weight, but mutual interference increased dispersion during salvo
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• 5"/38 caliber gun
  <!-- General specifications --> ...hat is ejected out the rear by a small black powder charge. It is used in practice anti-aircraft shoots.
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• 76/62mm Allargato
  <!-- General specifications --> ...uation (magazine capacity, feeding, and over heating of the barrel) but in practice the cannon is fire in single round shots or burst of three to five rounds.<
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• Afanasev Makarov AM-23
  <!-- General specifications --> ...easure projectile), flare expelling (countermeasure projectile) and target practice types.
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• BL 4 inch Mk IX naval gun
  <!-- General specifications --> ...ed to provide rapid concentrated fire. This turned out to be unworkable in practice : [[Jane's Fighting Ships]] of 1919 commented : "4-inch triples are clumsy
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• Bofors 40 mm
  <!-- General specifications --> ...rizontal as gravity assisted the feeding from the top-mounted magazine. In practice firing rates were closer to 80–100 rpm (1.3-1.7 rounds per second), as th
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• Carl Gustav recoilless rifle
  <!-- General specifications --> * FFV552 is a practice round with the same ballistics as the 551.
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• GAU-8 Avenger
  |manufacturer= [[General Electric]] <!-- General specifications -->
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• Gatling gun
  ...tant-craft crewmen use a Gatling gun to lay down suppressing fire during a practice "hot" extraction of forces on a beach.]] ...f weapons designed by [[General Electric]] and currently manufactured by [[General Dynamics]]. It is a six-barreled rotary cannon capable of more than 6,000 r
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• Hedgehog (weapon)
  ..._launcher.jpg|right|thumb|Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar with full load of practice bombs, ''circa'' 2002.]] ==General characteristics==
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• M197 Gatling gun
  |manufacturer= General Dynamics Armament Systems <!-- General specifications -->
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