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• Quartermaster Corps (United States Army)
  ....S. Army logistics branches, the others being the Transportation Corps and the Ordnance Corps. {{see also|Quartermaster General (United States)}}
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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  |issued_by= [[United States Navy]] ...tment in a combat environment. Qualified hospital corpsmen may be assigned the responsibility of independent duty aboard ships and submarines; Fleet Marin
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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  |image=Beirutbarr.jpg|300px|caption=A smoke cloud rises from the rubble of the bombed barracks at Beirut International Airport. ...dmark|name=USMCBarracksatBeirutAirport|display=inline,title}}<br/>[[United States Marine Corps]] [[barracks]], [[Beirut Airport]]
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• AT4
  {{About|the unguided anti-tank weapon|the Russian guided anti-tank missile|AT-4 Spigot}} ...oduces a large back blast, a significant problem when operating the weapon in urban environments.
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• Bofors 40 mm
  ...r (turned sideways). It operates the trapeze seen above the sights, moving the sights to adjust for lead. ...r]], [[South African Border War]], [[Falklands War]], [[Gulf War]], [[Iraq War]]
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• Carl Gustav recoilless rifle
  ...ghanistan (2001–present)|War in Afghanistan]], [[Falklands War]], [[Iraq War]] ...fle, model 48) but is sometimes nicknamed ''Stuprör'' (drainpipe) because the weapon mainly consists of a long tube.
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• M242 Bushmaster
  {{redirect|M242|the Israeli Jeep derivative|AIL Storm#Storm II}} | caption = U. S. Army photograph
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• M2 Browning machine gun
  :''This article is about the .50 caliber M2 machine gun. For the .30-06 M2 machine gun, see [[M1919 Browning machine gun]].'' |origin= {{flag|United States}}
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• Mk 19 grenade launcher
  |origin= {{Flag|United States}} |wars= [[Vietnam War]], [[2006 Lebanon War]], [[Gulf War]], [[Operation Iraqi Freedom|OIF]], [[Operation Enduring Freedom|OEF]]
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• Phalanx CIWS
  | origin = United States | type = [[Close-in weapon system]]
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• Airspeed Oxford
  |caption=Oxford II inflight over [[Saskatchewan]], Canada in 1942 ...ting, bombing and gunnery roles throughout the [[World War II|Second World War]].
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• Depleted uranium
  [[File:30mm DU slug.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The DU penetrator of a [[30 mm]] round<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20060716 ...|accessdate= |author= |date= |year= |publisher= UN |pages= }}</ref> In the past, DU has been called '''Q-metal''', '''depletalloy''', and '''D-38'''.
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• Chlorine
  {{About|the chemical element|the bleach|Sodium hypochlorite|the upcoming film|Chlorine (film)}} ...rocarbons]] have been implicated in the [[ozone depletion|destruction]] of the [[ozone layer]].
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• Burn pit
  ...eterans Sound Alarm Over Burn-Pit Exposure"] article by James Risen in ''[[The New York Times]]'' August 6, 2010, accessed August 7, 2010</ref> ...domain as the work of an employee of the United States government while in the performance of their duties, accessed August 7, 2010</ref>
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• List of places named after people
  There are a number of '''places named after famous people'''. For more on the general etymology of place names see [[toponomy]]. For other lists of epony *[[Colombia]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] (after the Italian version of his name)
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• 1993 World Trade Center bombing
  ...ttack on the World Trade Center in 1993|the 2001 attack and destruction of the World Trade Center|September 11 attacks}} |caption=Underground damage after the bombing
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• Assassination of George Tiller
  | caption = [[George Tiller]] gives a mock [[consultation]] in 1997 in the setting of his clinic, Women’s Health Care – [[Wichita, Kansas]], which ...{Cite news |last1=Finger |first1=Stan |last2=Rodriguez |first2=Joe |work=[[The Wichita Eagle]] |date=2009-05-31 |title=Wichita abortion provider George Ti
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• Counter-terrorism
  ...itaries]], [[police department]]s and [[corporation]]s adopt to prevent or in response to terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed. ...ls, such as [[Timothy McVeigh]], may also engage in terrorist acts such as the [[Oklahoma City bombing]].
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• Insurgency
  [[File:Vcfightersboat.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Viet Cong]] insurgents in the mid-1960s]] {{History of war}}
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• Definitions of terrorism
  ...charged.<ref name="Hoffman-1998-p32">Hoffman (1998), p. 32, See review in The [[New York Times]][http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoffman-terrorism.h ...ifferences of opinion between various members about the use of violence in the context of conflicts over national liberation and self-determination."<ref>
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