Sentences with phrase «american troops»

• Effective planning strategies and composite risk management that minimized collateral damage and injuries to American troops and equipment.

Remember how the US tried to peg back WikiLeaks after the video of American troops gunning down innocent Iraqi civilians surfaced?

The Vietnam War was not going well on April 30, 1970, when President Richard Nixon announced on national television that he had ordered American troops into Cambodia to destroy North Vietnamese encampments there.

With this approach, American troops could address a real national security threat as well as the delusional one on which Obama is fixated.

Obama is acting upon his delusion that the biggest global security threats involve weather patterns and he's now calling on American troops to respond.

As American troops were celebrating the capture of Saddam Hussein's parade grounds, just around the corner, Baghdad Bob says, «There you can see, there is nothing going on.»

There is no an... — no any existence to the American troops or for the troops in Baghdad at all.»

American troops gradually found and ultimately suffered from the remnants of long - abandoned programs, built in close collaboration with the West.

BUFFALO SOLDIERS NATIONAL MUSEUM: Artifacts relating to the two regiments of African - American troops formed in 1866 by the U.S. Army.

His most frequent subject is American troops in downtime or waiting... There's a saying that war is long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he used his art to honor American troops and to maintain national morale throughout World War II.

Biographical overviews, artist talks, video interviews, and additional resources provide insight into this tumultuous but artistically fertile period, spanning Allied occupation and the escalation of American troops in Japan during the Vietnam War, the country's spectacular economic growth and subsequent crash in the 1980s, the devastating 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, and on.

The remainder of the game sees you slaughtering American troops en masse and destroying huge sections of major cities in your bid for patriotic justice — with an unending string of hilariously embarrassing one - liners (Sweet, sweet!

In the opening minutes we witness Kyle's first kill, a child who is being used by what appears to be his mother to blow up a convoy of American troops.

These are entities like the Voice for American Troops or the National Military Family Association.

Using Pavlovian techniques on the bees» natural response to nectar, a sticking out of their tongue, their skill might be applied to protect American troops and civilians alike (December 2005 online statement).

Military dogs have worked alongside American troops since World War II.

Even, during World War I, American troops had to exchange ammunition for trained dogs with English, French and Belgian troops.

Chips attacked the gunners, who surrendered to American troops.

In order to qualify for membership, you must either serve in the military or uniformed services, be an employee of the U.S. government, be related to a member - qualifying person, or join qualifying organization that provides support to American troops.

A light snow is falling, and over on Capitol Hill, members of Congress are debating whether to support President Clinton's decision to send 20,000 American troops to Bosnia.

When she traveled overseas to entertain American troops in the 1950s, it was as a sex symbol.

When the regiment ships out to France, Stubby proves to be much more than that, sniffing out wounded soldiers in the field and warning American troops — and French villagers — of an impending mustard - gas attack.

So, they decide to put him to use as an army celebrity and parade him across Europe to boost morale by performing in USO shows for American troops.

In this case, it's an image of American troops in full combat gear marching across the Brooklyn Bridge.

The movie elides over the segregation of American troops, for example, but it does include some subtle nods to the underlying prejudices that permeated the period, and even Cap himself isn't completely immune.

The American troops were home, but there was little celebration.

He approaches the scene hesitantly, nervously, as the American troops approach the beach; when their landing craft opens up, the front wave of soldiers are immediately dispatched in a wall of gunfire, and Spielberg, in that instant, explodes our war movie mythology.

How all these people and others — including clueless and disruptive American troops and Marguerite (Mathilde Viseux - Ely), Clovis's daughter from his first marriage — interact with each other within a framework that is centuries old but already changing is the heart of what «The Guardians» is about.

The official documents conclusively showed the long history of U.S. meddling in Vietnamese politics since the early 1950s, as well as the outright lying by the Johnson and then - current Nixon administrations about both U.S. actions there and the prospects for victory ever since American troops became combatants.

The U.S. and Afghanistan have reached a deal on the final language of a bilateral security agreement, guiding the role of American troops in the nation for years to come.

I use uniform loosely, though, since the American troops were underfunded to say the least, and often the militias just fought in their everyday attire.

This first outfit is mostly inspired by the uniforms of the American troops during the Revolutionary War.

General George Washington, in 1777, gave the general order for American troops to go out and pick the wild greens growing around their camps to protect them from «all putrid disorders.»

With only minutes to spare, Sullivan stopped what would have been a deadly friendly - fire missile strike on American troops.

When hundreds of thousands of American troops deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1990 and 1991 in what is now called the First Gulf War, they were exposed to a variety of chemicals.

It is no secret that American troops in Iraq routinely use unmanned air vehicles — flying robots, in essence — in reconnaissance and combat missions.

And then go ask some politician who doesn't know or care anything about environment to name the modern world's worst political trouble spots, where state government has already collapsed or is at risk of collapsing or where there have been civil wars or dispatches of American troops or exoduses of millions of desperate illegal immigrants or terrorists.

It wasn't a holiday; Munk worked for the Pentagon and he was there to watch American troops practise for an amphibious landing in north - west Africa.

Once the ground forces began to attack Iraqi positions, American troops -LSB-...]

As Mason writes, «The global war on terror has already yielded more than ten thousand survivable traumatic brain injuries to American troops.»

In 28 Weeks, well - meaning American troops attempt to rebuild England by putting survivors in a protected green zone and even firebombing the innocent in a desperate attempt to quash a zombie insurgency.

Although there is no evidence that Palmyra ever supported permanent indigenous settlements, its habitats were dramatically affected during World War II when it was occupied by American troops.

So why do both Democrats and Republicans continue to prop up the Saudi monarchy that oppresses women and dissent and send American troops to die in the Middle East?

Sen. Carl Levin, D - Michigan, has lately suggested that the proper course for the United States to pursue in Afghanistan is to beef up the country's own army and police forces before planning on sending in any additional American troops.

Can he say more about who will lead the political settlement around which we hope stability will be maintained as British and American troops withdraw later in this decade?

The SUNY Buffalo Research Foundation received $ 23,000 to study a War of 1812 bridge near the former Squaw Island that was used to deliver supplies to American troops.

Usama Bin Ladin's main stated beef has always been the presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia.

We don't want American troops on our soil.

Although the dictatorship regimes in both of these countries were swiftly ended by British and American troops, the remaining British forces were not withdrawn from Iraq until 2009 and not from Afghanistan until 2014.