machine gunners
Rapid-fire infantry soldiers
Machine gunners are soldiers who operate machine guns—automatic weapons capable of sustained rapid fire.
The term applies to military personnel specifically trained in the deployment, maintenance, and tactical use of these weapons: The machine gunners provided covering fire while the squad advanced.
In civilian contexts, it may describe anyone firing such a weapon.
- gunmenArmed violent criminals
- combatantOne who fights
- belt-fedAmmunition via flexible chain
- aimPurpose or direction
- warfareArmed conflict between groups
World War I · no man's land · firearm · military · suppressive fire · covering fire · tracer rounds · gunners · artillery · soldier · gun crew · infantry · barrages · enfilade · battalion · automatics · cannoneers · platoon
- toy soldierstin soldier, tin soldiers, lead soldier, wooden soldier, nutcracker
- infantry unitsfoot soldiers, riflemen, platoon, squad, company
- Red ArmyRed Army, soldiers, riflemen, divisions, regiments
- military personnelsoldiers, soldier, midshipmen, officers, troops
- WWI militarytrenches, ANZAC, trench warfare, Tommies, Western Front
- infantryfoot soldiers, foot soldier, rifleman, riflemen, infantryman
machine gunnerssnipers
Concealed precision shooters
sharpshooters · marksmen · riflemen · swordsmen · archers
machine gunnerscivilians
Non-military population
noncombatants · snipers · pacifists · conscientious objectors · medics
machine gunnerssnipers
Concealed precision shooters
sharpshooters · riflemen · marksmen · scouts · forward observers
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