personnel carrier
noun
: a vehicle with thick, strong walls that is used for transporting military workers and their equipment
armored personnel carriers
Examples of personnel carrier in a Sentence
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Ukrainian soldiers spent hours ducking in trenches as artillery exploded around them, then dashed for the safety of an armored personnel carrier — only to be chased through the open rear ramp of the vehicle by an exploding drone.
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Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Hamas’s military wing said that its fighters had targeted a tank and a personnel carrier north of Khan Younis and several Israeli military vehicles in central Gaza.
—Michael Levenson, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
The armored personnel carrier transporting a CNN team last week drove directly through the New Bureij cemetery in Al-Bureij, a Palestinian refugee camp in central Gaza, on its way out of the strip.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
Israeli soldiers ride in an armored personnel carrier near the Gaza border, Dec. 25.
—WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
How Israel built its case to raid Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital
Getting there would take hours — in jeeps first, and then an armored personnel carrier — in the company of heavily armed soldiers.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
The director had arrived in Sarajevo aboard a military plane from Zagreb and then crossed the city in an armored personnel carrier.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 Aug. 2023
Israel later removed the turrets from some Centurions to create the Nagmachon heavy armored personnel carrier, which carries infantry behind the thick armor of a tank hull rather than the thinner skin of most troop carriers.
—Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
About 45 seconds later, more Israeli military vehicles begin to pass, the first an MDT David light armored vehicle and the second a Wolf armored personnel carrier roughly 100 feet behind.
—Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Hamas’s military wing said that its fighters had targeted a tank and a personnel carrier north of Khan Younis and several Israeli military vehicles in central Gaza.
—Michael Levenson, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
The armored personnel carrier transporting a CNN team last week drove directly through the New Bureij cemetery in Al-Bureij, a Palestinian refugee camp in central Gaza, on its way out of the strip.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
Israeli soldiers ride in an armored personnel carrier near the Gaza border, Dec. 25.
—WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
How Israel built its case to raid Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital
Getting there would take hours — in jeeps first, and then an armored personnel carrier — in the company of heavily armed soldiers.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
The director had arrived in Sarajevo aboard a military plane from Zagreb and then crossed the city in an armored personnel carrier.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 Aug. 2023
Israel later removed the turrets from some Centurions to create the Nagmachon heavy armored personnel carrier, which carries infantry behind the thick armor of a tank hull rather than the thinner skin of most troop carriers.
—Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
About 45 seconds later, more Israeli military vehicles begin to pass, the first an MDT David light armored vehicle and the second a Wolf armored personnel carrier roughly 100 feet behind.
—Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
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