gun crews
Battery team members
Gun crews are the teams of personnel who operate large firearms—artillery pieces, naval guns, antiaircraft weapons, or similar heavy armament.
Each crew member has specific duties: loading, aiming, firing, or handling ammunition.
The term appears most often in military and naval contexts: The gun crews drilled until they could reload in under thirty seconds.
- howitzerShort-barreled artillery piece
- cannonLarge mounted gun
- ramrodGun-cleaning rod
- loaderOne who fills containers
- gunnerOne who fires artillery
mortar · artillery · spotter · bombardment · field guns · commander · battery · aiming · indirect fire · limber · lanyard · safety checks · communication signals · naval · warship · big guns · ammunition · shell casings
- artillerycannons, cannon, howitzers, howitzer, mortars
- naval warfarenaval battles, naval battle, battleship, destroyer, sea battles
- naval gunnerycannons, gunnery drills, guns, naval guns, gunnery
- naval weaponstorpedo, naval guns, cannon, naval mines, torpedoes
- artillery units
- Anti-Aircraftanti-aircraft guns, flak, AAA, ack-ack, air defense
gun crewsinfantry
Ground combat troops
foot soldiers · riflemen · ground troops · infantrymen · line infantry
gun crewsfoot soldiers
Ground-based military fighters
riflemen · infantrymen · ground troops · cavalry · mounted troops