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    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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  • 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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    Firearm (redirect from Small arm)
    flintlock or earlier firearms. Most early firearms were muzzle-loading. This form of loading has several disadvantages, such as a slow rate of fire and having...
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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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    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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    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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