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  • noun A modern, heavy duty, expensive, full featured gurney typically heavily padded with yellow legs.
  • noun military An eight-wheeled armoured combat vehicle used by the US Army.

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Sense of armoured vehicle 2002, named for two Americans who posthumously received the Medal of Honor: PFC Stuart S. Stryker, who died in World War II and SP4 Robert F. Stryker, who died in the Vietnam War.

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