All 4 Uses of
propel
in
Fearless
- Further surveillance of the valley revealed men armed with rifles, mostly AK-47s, as well as light machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.†
p. 6.9propelled = caused something to move forward
- An enemy rocket-propelled grenade had struck their helicopter, and the resulting explosion and impact killed everyone on board.†
p. 185.2 *
- The latest attack James had claimed was on February 20, when his fighters killed twenty-nine-year-old U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Michael Cardenaz with a rocket-propelled grenade as Cardenaz was assisting a mortar team setting up security for the Chapa Dara District Center.†
p. 260.2
- Seven of the ten men I had met with from SEAL Team SIX—Brian Bill, Chris Campbell, John Faas, Kevin Houston, Matt Mason, Tom Ratzlaff, and Heath Robinson—were locked and loaded on a CH-47 helicopter that was approaching a landing zone in Wardak Province when an insurgent-fired rocket-propelled grenade struck the aft rotor blade, causing the CH-47 to crash into a dry creek bed and explode.†
p. 314.7
Definition:
cause to move forward (to push or encourage)