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He had little experience of close-combat operations, having spent six weeks on pre-deployment training in Kenya before being posted to Afghanistan.
'My son was shot by a British sniper, now all I want is the truth' Jamie Doward 2010
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But the heavy infantry charged ahead with battering rams and close-combat spears, sickle swords and axes to smite the Reahns.
THE PROMISED WAR Thomas Greanias 2010
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But Starfleet close-combat training was based on the brutally aggressive, efficient, no-nonsense principles of Krav Maga, originally the old Israeli Defense Force combat system.
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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But Starfleet close-combat training was based on the brutally aggressive, efficient, no-nonsense principles of Krav Maga, originally the old Israeli Defense Force combat system.
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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But Starfleet close-combat training was based on the brutally aggressive, efficient, no-nonsense principles of Krav Maga, originally the old Israeli Defense Force combat system.
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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One scene that particularly impressed me in this sense was a fight between Nick and another Mover near the end whereas the two characters proceed to pound the Hell out of each other, mano-a-mano with telekinetically-enhanced maneuvers of close-combat fighting.
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John Pike, a defence analyst with Washington DC think tank GlobalSecurity.org, said: ‘This airburst shell gives the close-combat capability of a grenade launcher, combined with the ability of indirect fire weapons to hit stuff on the other side of the wall.’
Smart Rifle That Fires Radio-Controlled Bullets | Impact Lab 2009
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Efficient decapitators, like their progenitors the machete and katana, these were meant to disable a rotter at close-combat with a single stroke.
EMPIRE DAVID DUNWOODY 2008
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Both the axe and the gun were close-combat weapons, declaring her proficiency in melee combat.
EMPIRE DAVID DUNWOODY 2008
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Efficient decapitators, like their progenitors the machete and katana, these were meant to disable a rotter at close-combat with a single stroke.
EMPIRE DAVID DUNWOODY 2008
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