A marine loading arm, also known as a mechanical loading arm, loading arm, or MLA is a mechanical arm consisting of articulated steel pipes that connect...
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Top Loading Arm or a Bottom Loading Arm. Transfer to or from a ship or barge requires a marine loading arm. General feature of Top and Bottom loading arms...
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barges, and marine terminals. Specifically, once the marine vessel is secure at the dock a loading arm or transfer hose is connected between a valve header...
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The loading master person-in-charge (PIC) is the marine transfer operator at the marine terminal who supervises the movement of petroleum products between...
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Additionally, Marine Corps' aircraft arm and intelligence arm are both organized under HQMC; those being the Marine Corps Aviation and Marine Corps Intelligence...
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Al Schmid (category United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II)
Albert Andrew Schmid (20 October 1920 – 1 December 1982) was a United States Marine awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism at the Battle of the Tenaru (Ilu...
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The L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle (SLR), also known by the initial Canadian designation C1, or in the U.S. as the "inch pattern" FAL, is a British version of...
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the Royal Marine ace was Ronald Cuthbert Hay with 13 victories. A number of Royal Marines were FAA pilots during the war. Notable Fleet Air Arm operations...
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FN FAL (redirect from The right arm of the Free World)
by the United Kingdom and throughout the Commonwealth as the L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle. In 1946, the first FAL prototype was completed. It was designed...
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arm. The Advanced Bomb Suit is used by Explosive Ordnance Disposal. The Sea Dragon 2025 is an experimental battledress being tested for the US Marine...
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(platoon hand and arm signals, SALUTE and SMEAC reports, fighting positions, MOPP gear, formation movements in day/night conditions) Marine Corps Operations...
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The United States Merchant Marine is an organization composed of United States civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels...
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geometrically. After a brief experiment with a 230-grain bullet loading, the .30 Army loading was standardized in 1894 using a 220-grain (14 g) metal-jacketed...
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Crane (machine) (redirect from Loader crane)
to do its work. Cranes are commonly employed in transportation for the loading and unloading of freight, in construction for the movement of materials...
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M1895 Lee Navy (category United States Marine Corps equipment)
March 1897 a new military loading was adopted using a 112-grain (7.3 g) round-nose, copper-jacketed (FMJ) military loading developing 2,560 feet per second...
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Mike (November 1, 2006). "Loading paper patch bullets: exploring the past through its tools". Guns Magazine. Making, Loading, and Shooting Paper Patched...
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M252 mortar (category United States Marine Corps equipment)
M252 81 mm medium weight mortar is a British-designed smooth bore, muzzle-loading, high-angle-of-fire weapon used for long-range indirect fire support to...
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crew. Marine Gunners are known as bigors, a nickname whose origin is disputed. It could come from bigue dehors which was the order given for loading the...
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self-loading pistol that would culminate in the official adoption of the M1911 after the turn of the decade. Hiram S. Maxim had designed a self-loading rifle...
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The Indian Naval Air Arm is the aviation branch and a fighting arm of the Indian Navy which is tasked to provide an aircraft carrier-based strike capability...
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Terrier installation typically consisted of the Mk 10 twin-arm launcher with a 40-round rear-loading magazine. Some ships had extended magazines with 60 or...
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Krag–Jørgensen (section Self-loading device SNABB 38)
presents both advantages and disadvantages compared with a top-loading "box" magazine. Normal loading was one cartridge at a time, and this could be done more...
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Pull-up (redirect from One-arm pullup)
Reilly, Peter; Bull, Anthony M. J. (2020). "Avoiding high-risk rotator cuff loading: Muscle force during three pull-up techniques". Scandinavian Journal of...
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Springfield Model 1870 rolling-block U.S. Navy rifle was a shipboard small arm for use by the United States Navy, employing the Remington Arms Company rolling-block...
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of the side of the torso/under the arm. DAPS consists of two ambidextrous modular components, the Deltoid (upper arm) Protector and the Axillary (underarm)...
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primer, and propellant in a fixed unit. This separate-loading system necessitated the use of two loaders. The only part of the cartridge case consumed during...
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Grumman F6F Hellcat (section U.S. Navy and Marines)
enemy aircraft while in service with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA). This was more than any other Allied naval aircraft...
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The Corsair's early deployment was to land-based squadrons of the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy. The Corsair served almost exclusively as a fighter-bomber...
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purposes to accustom the soldier to the operation of loading the rifle. The rifle is a magazine-fed clip-loader and can fire at a rate of 20 shots per minute...
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