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1. pinned down

   In military science, suppressive fire is "fire that degrades the performance of an enemy force below the level needed to fulfill its mission". When used to protect exposed friendly troops advancing on the battlefield, it is commonly called covering fire. Suppression is usually only effective for the duration of the fire. It is one of three types of fire support, which is defined by NATO as "the application of fire, coordinated with the maneuver of forces, to destroy, neutralise or suppress the enemy". Before NATO defined the term, the British and Commonwealth armies generally used "neutralisation" with the same definition as suppression. NATO now defines neutralisation as "fire delivered to render a target temporarily ineffective or unusable."

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1. Pinned down

   "Pinned down" is a common military term for a unit that is being suppressed by enemy fire. A suppressed unit has lost its ability to move, lost all or most of its ability to return fire, and lost much of its ability to gather real-time intelligence on the enemy position, as it is concerned with staying under cover. Suppression is a key tactical goal utilized in most small unit tactics and will afford the attacking unit with greater security of movement, intelligence, and tactical flexibility. Often, a suppressed unit will lose organizational efficiency and morale if kept in that state for an extended period of time.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pinned down in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pinned down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of pinned down in a Sentence

1. Melissa Benoist:

   I learned what it felt like to be pinned down and slapped repeatedly, punched so hard the wind would go out of me, dragged by my hair across pavement, head-butted, pinched until my skin broke, shoved into a wall so hard the drywall broke, choked.

2. Paul OShaughnessy:

   He had a knife, it was covered in blood. He kept saying something in Arabic, he was clearly under the influence of something, my brother Luke managed to keep him pinned down until the police arrived. My brother put a crate and a chair to keep him pinned down. He didnt show any remorse at all.

3. Jason Redman:

   Myself and other teammates were all shot up. I was hit eight times between the body and body armor. I took a round directly to the face and was pinned down, we called rounds directly on our position and miraculously survived. And fast forward about 96 hours from that moment. I found myself in a hospital bed in Bethesda.

References

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