rifleman
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Bek Ismailov, a 60-year-old rifleman visiting the parade, told AFP he wanted a "Russia without war".
From Barron's ● May 9, 2026
In the future, Breuer predicts, “Every rifleman will need to be a drone pilot.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
The intelligence service reported that the soldier carrying the ID card said he was born in 2005 and had been serving North Korea as a rifleman since 2021.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025
Trained as a rifleman, Anderson found himself in Vietnam’s Quang Tri province.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024
The rifleman swatted his friend, who laughed and straightened his eye patch.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
The bronze riflemen are unmistakable in their likeness.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026
It is the position soldiers assume when one of their compatriots is buried and a trio of riflemen fire their weapons seven times in quick succession just before “Taps” is played.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2024
Corporal Miyamura’s unit of 15 or so machine-gunners and riflemen came under attack while defending an outpost near Seoul, the South Korean capital, on the night of April 24, 1951.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
Seeking an interview with Mao, he joined the Communist armies marching south in the Huaihai campaign, only to be taken prisoner by militia riflemen who took him to a hut near the battlefield.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2020
The riflemen and the other living allies were bemused: they could make nothing of this ghostly, spectral combat.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
