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- After CQB, we went on to train on explosive breaching, land warfare, and communications.†
p. 35.4breaching = breaking or penetrating
- As you walked around the command, it wasn't uncommon to hear rounds being shot at the indoor and outdoor ranges, or hear the thud of a breaching charge going off in the kill house.†
p. 46.1
- Like the rest of my teammates, I was loaded down with breaching gear and our chemical protective suits.†
p. 48.4
- They'd wait about half a minute for us to breach the roof door, creating a diversion, before they would breach the bottom floor and we'd clear our way to the middle.†
p. 58.1breach = break or penetrate
- They'd wait about half a minute for us to breach the roof door, creating a diversion, before they would breach the bottom floor and we'd clear our way to the middle.†
p. 58.1
- I watched as a small breach team, led by one of Delta's Explosive Ordnance Disposal guys, ran into the first floor to set a thermobaric charge.†
p. 62.7
- A few minutes later, the charge was set and the breach team ran back and took cover next to me.†
p. 62.9
- Again, the breach team ran back inside.†
p. 63.7
- We continued to cover the house, and minutes later the breach team was back behind the Pandur.†
p. 63.8
- So Charlie and Walt will hold their position until Tom gives them the all-clear to breach.†
p. 167.5
- I'll carry two breaching charges and a set of bolt cutters.†
p. 169.8breaching = breaking or penetrating
- A breaching charge was a two-inch-thick strip of explosives.†
p. 169.8
- Running my hands over my kit, I tugged on the breaching charge I rubber-banded to the back of it.†
p. 203.6
- I touched the breaching charge over my left shoulder.†
p. 206.1
- When I got back outside, Charlie was checking his back blast to make sure no one could get hit by shrapnel from the breaching charge.†
p. 217.2
- "I am going explosive," I whispered to Will, and grabbed the breaching charge off the back of my kit.†
p. 219.5 *
- "Failed breach" came over the radio.†
p. 219.7breach = break or penetrate
- Taking a knee to the right of the door, I peeled the backing off the adhesive strip on the breaching charge and set it across the mangled knob and lock.†
p. 220.4breaching = breaking or penetrating
- I always knelt while I placed breaching charges because I had been shot at through the door in Iraq many times.†
p. 220.4
- Unsure if a hallway ran between the north and south doors, we didn't want to risk two explosive breaches at the same time.†
p. 226.1breaches = breaks or penetrates
- Seconds after hearing the call from Tom over the radio, I heard the boom as Charlie set off his breaching charge.†
p. 227.4breaching = breaking or penetrating
- After the failed breach, they had moved over to the main gate and were let in by Mike.†
p. 227.6breach = break or penetrate
- Inside Al, Charlie set his next breaching charge and checked the back blast.†
p. 229.8breaching = breaking or penetrating
- They heard the shots fired at the guesthouse, and they heard the explosive breaches.†
p. 231.9breaches = breaks or penetrates
Definitions:
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(1)
(breach) break or failure
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) A less common meaning of breach is the rising and breaking out of the water by a whale.