"cannon cocker" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2009, Billy Hall, Bulletproof: In Vietnam, page 103:",
          "text": "A 'Cannon Cocker' is the lowest form of existence that there is in the Army. It is hot, dirty, dangerous, loud and continuous.",
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          "ref": "2011, Kris Alexander, Servants of the Light:",
          "text": "“I guess we need to take these guys in,” a cannon cocker said. I met Smith's eyes, and he shook his head. Neither of us was much interested in taking the prisoners back to base.",
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          "ref": "2012, Dr. George A. Baker III, The Making of a Marine-Scholar, page 561:",
          "text": "I subsequently taught enough artillerymen at Quantico, and the Naval War College to make that statement, and today, even in the war on terror, I would ensure that my chief of staff was a cannon cocker!",
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        "A member of the military who fires guns; a soldier involved in gunnery."
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        "(US, military, slang, sometimes derogatory) A member of the military who fires guns; a soldier involved in gunnery."
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