Under fire from artillery, tank shells, mortars and antiaircraft artillery bursts fired in a low arc toward them, Sergeant Brown squatted and fired shoulder-launched Javelin antitank missiles to take out two armored personnel carriers and ignite a troop truck full of Iraqi infantrymen.

With each artillery burst, scarlet macaws fled squawking overhead.

Many of the soldiers covered their ears as if expecting a thunderous artillery burst.

Seconds later, a lone figure emerged from the smoke of the artillery burst.

The men were harassed by sporadic machine-gun fire and occasional artillery bursts, which prompted them to cut branches from the nearest source to cover their foxholes.

From the point in time of his first appearance, the signals came at us like artillery bursts - the Marine uniform, the clump of medals, the shoulders-back-head-high bearing, the boyish grin, the earnest professions of an eagerness to tell the truth, "the good, the bad, the ugly."

Just before the end of the film, Kat is wounded by an artillery burst and Paul carries him many miles to a field hospital.

They couldn't gauge whether incoming artillery bursts were close enough to be dangerous.