Firefights

Word FIREFIGHTS
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What do we mean by firefights?

A skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire.

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The word "firefights" in example sentences

Moneymaker said he suffers post-traumatic stress disorder from his experiences, which included being involved in firefights and grenade attacks, witnessing "fellow soldiers and civilians killed or wounded in combat," and being wounded himself by a shell fragment ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some were killed in firefights with the army, others in battles between the cartels for control of smuggling routes, and still others in power struggles within the cartels. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Several of the people (?) who were released from Gitmo were subsequently killed in firefights with US troops. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But plenty of clerks, medics, and truck drivers have found themselves in firefights lately, and if standards have changed for frontline troops, the ones kicking down doors in Ramadi, then training for the rest has surely followed suit. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He meant that the satellites are tied up following U.S. troops on patrol and in firefights to let them know who might be waiting in ambush. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The both, and particularly the latter, can also intervene in firefights, the US using, amongst other things, the light Kiowa helicopter (a militarised version of the Bell Jet Ranger - pictured above right) to such effect that troops have declared their pilots "honorary infantrymen" because they fly so low as they "mix it" with insurgents at close range. ❋ Richard (2006)

It was maddening, because you had absolutely no control over your destiny, whereas in firefights you could run, duck, hug a wall, or dive into a ditch. ❋ Unknown (2004)

"With the weapons that they have, the rebels are holding on," Rice said, referring to firefights in the besieged city of Misrata. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As in filming during the firefights was a dangerous experience, from UK My Park Magazine. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Much of the battlefield imagery recalls the firefights and wrenching civilian casualties of Vietnam; the hero's trajectory, meanwhile, hews closely to Western revisionism, both solid ( "A Man Called Horse") and squishy ( "Dances With Wolves"). ❋ By MICHAEL PHILLIPS (2009)

Those stresses not only include actual attacks, such as firefights or roadside explosions, but the constant threat of attack that troops experience during guerrilla wars and insurgencies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Veterans will no longer be required to provide documentation for specific incidents such as firefights or bomb blasts when they apply for compensation for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), ❋ Unknown (2010)

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