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• Napalm Sticks to Kids
  ...U.S.military.<ref>The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving In Iraq. Helen Benedict, Beacon Press, p. 37</ref> The earliest recorded example is ....smithsonianglobalsound.org/trackdetail.aspx?itemid=3993 We Say No To Your War!]'' {{audio|napalm_sticks_to_kids__we_say_no_to_your_war.ogg|sample}} LP re
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• Quartermaster Corps (United States Army)
  ....S. military operation from the Revolutionary War to current operations in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom) and Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom). * remount / war dogs [http://www.qmfound.com/remount1.htm]
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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  ...1 and remained through the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. Following the war, the title Surgeon's Steward was abolished in favor of [[Apothecary]], a po ...lobbied the Navy administration to take action. With the Spanish-American War looming, Congress passed a bill authorizing establishment of the U.S. Navy
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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  ...bombing''' (October 23, 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon) during the Lebanese Civil War, two [[truck bomb]]s struck separate buildings housing [[Military of the Un ...nam War, and the deadliest single attack on Americans overseas since World War II.<ref name=HouseReport>{{cite web|accessdate=2007-09-30
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• AT4
  ...tan (2001-present)|Afghanistan War]]<ref name="amnestysweden"/><li> [[Iraq War]]<ref name="amnestysweden"/>
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• 9M133 Kornet
  ...s showed up in the recent Hezbullah war with Israel, and also in the Iraqi war. The 9M133 missile itself is supersonic with a range of between 100 and 550 ...he [[2003 invasion of Iraq]], Kornets were rumoured to have been used by [[Iraq]]i forces to disable [[USA|American]] [[M1 Abrams]] [[tank]]s. [[GlobalSecu
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• 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K)
  |wars=[[Vietnam War]], [[Cambodian Civil War]] ...of this type were successfully used throughout the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]] against dive bombers and other low- and medium-altitude
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• Bofors 40 mm
  ...r]], [[South African Border War]], [[Falklands War]], [[Gulf War]], [[Iraq War]] ...ems during [[World War II]], used by most of the western [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] as well as various other forces. It is often referred to simply
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• Carl Gustav recoilless rifle
  ...ghanistan (2001–present)|War in Afghanistan]], [[Falklands War]], [[Iraq War]] In a well-known incident during the [[Falklands War]], a [[Royal Marines|Royal Marine]] damaged an Argentinian [[D'Estienne_d'O
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• M242 Bushmaster
  ...hese were deployed as part of coalition forces' port security efforts in [[Iraq]] as well as anti-piracy roles in the [[Gulf of Aden]]. [[Category:Cold War weapons of the United States]]
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• M2 Browning machine gun
  ...Terror]] ([[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|Afghanistan]], [[Iraq War|Iraq]]) ..."Ma Deuce" is a [[heavy machine gun]] designed towards the end of [[World War I]] by [[John Browning]]. It is very similar in design to John Browning's e
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• Mk 19 grenade launcher
  |wars= [[Vietnam War]], [[2006 Lebanon War]], [[Gulf War]], [[Operation Iraqi Freedom|OIF]], [[Operation Enduring Freedom|OEF]] ...service during the [[Cold War]], first seeing action during the [[Vietnam War]] and remaining in service today.
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• Phalanx CIWS
  ...and the destroyer {{HMS|Gloucester|D96}}. The ships were attacked by an [[Iraq]]i [[Silkworm missile]] (often referred to as the ''Seersucker''), at which ...a proof of concept test in November that same year. It began deployment to Iraq in 2005,<ref name="defense-update.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thef
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• SWARM
  |wars= [[Iraq War]], [[Afghanistan]]
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• Swingfire
  |era=Cold War ...gulf/gulfunits.htm Britain's Small Wars - Gulf Units]</ref> and the [[Iraq War]].
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• Airspeed Oxford
  ...ting, bombing and gunnery roles throughout the [[World War II|Second World War]]. As a consequence of the outbreak of war, many thousands of Oxfords would be ordered by Britain and its allies, incl
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• Depleted uranium
  ...January 15, 2009</ref> During a three week period of conflict in 2003 in [[Iraq]], 1,000 to 2,000 tonnes of DU munitions were used, mostly in cities.<ref n ...military used DU penetrator rounds in the [[1991 Gulf War]], the [[Bosnia war]],<ref>{{cite web
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• Chlorine
  ...http://www.historynet.com/weaponry-use-of-chlorine-gas-cylinders-in-world-war-i.htm|publisher = historynet.com|accessdate = 2008-07-10}}</ref> and the re * '''World War I '''
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• Burn pit
  ...late#Health_effects|particulates]] when burned. In [[Iraq War|Iraq]] and [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|Afghanistan]] the U.S. military, or its con [[Joint Base Balad]], the largest U.S. base in Iraq had a burn pit operation as late as the summer of 2008 burning 147 tons of
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• List of eponyms of stadiums
  ...iral (captain of the [[USA Perpignan]] rugby union team, who died in World War I) ...C Sochaux Montbéliard]], and figure in the French resistance during World War II)
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