firing party

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Nearby stood a military band, an 82nd Airborne color guard and a firing party, its seven soldiers arrayed in line.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2022

A firing party of 14 will each fire three rounds in unison, and a bugler will sound the Last Post at the end of the private service.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2021

A chaplain spoke a prayer, a bugler sounded Taps and a firing party shot three times into the soft morning light.

From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2015

After a firing party shot into the frigid air Friday, the smell of gunpowder lingered above the endless rows of white headstones.

From Washington Post

The firing party consisted of a platoon of Annamite tirailleurs.

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