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Who is Daniel Penny? Penny, a former Marine sergeant, served as a rifleman to Camp Lejeune from 2017 to 2021.
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Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Averin Valeriy Vasilievich, a 52-year-old rifleman with the 153rd Tank Regiment, took the kettle and left the trench to fetch water.
—David Axe, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
Trained as a rifleman, Anderson found himself in Vietnam’s Quang Tri province.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
In the better of the two portraits, his grandfather’s face is drowning in a sheet of white, though Mandelbaum included dozens of little doodles to one side: Panzers, riflemen.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
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Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Averin Valeriy Vasilievich, a 52-year-old rifleman with the 153rd Tank Regiment, took the kettle and left the trench to fetch water.
—David Axe, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
Trained as a rifleman, Anderson found himself in Vietnam’s Quang Tri province.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
In the better of the two portraits, his grandfather’s face is drowning in a sheet of white, though Mandelbaum included dozens of little doodles to one side: Panzers, riflemen.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
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Fredette, 36, gained fame as a sharpshooter at BYU, where he was named college basketball’s player of the year in 2011 after leading the nation in scoring at 28.9 points per game.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Beasley, a vaunted sharpshooter who finished just one triple behind Anthony Edwards for the NBA’s three-point crown this season, began the possession guarded by Miles McBride.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
20 Apr. 2025
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“Rifleman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rifleman. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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