Sentences with phrase «during war service»

During war service in Britain, he would become friends with leading artists of that movement, such as Graham Sutherland, John Minton and John Craxton.

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«These concepts were raised and explored repeatedly during the Cold War,» Justin Bronk, a combat aviation expert at the Royal United Services Institute, told Business Insider.

A Silver Star and Bronze Star recipient for his service during the Iraq War, Jocko knows a thing or two about leadership in pressure situations.

The Apple TV will run games such as Galaxy On Fire, Rayman Adventures, and «even games that [had] only been available on consoles, like the new Disney Star Wars game, called Disney Infinity,» said Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice-president, Internet software and services, during the company's presentation.

He worked with the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R - AK) and the late Senator Daniel K. Inuye (D - HI) on the project and recalled that Stevens, who served as a pilot in the Army's air force during World War II, was eager to investigate claims that service members were often hesitant to report sightings to their superiors due to fear of being laughed at or stigmatized.

In 1978, Blankfein graduated from Harvard Law School and took a job as an associate at Donovan, Leisure, a small «old - line» law firm founded in 1929, by William J. «Wild Bill» Donovan, who later formed the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and was known as the father of the CIA.

He served in the US Army as a corporal during World War II, a service that had him defusing land mines and fighting in the Battle of the Bulge.

And during the pre-Civil War years America's most valuable export was not capital goods or financial services, it was cotton, mostly produced by slave labor.

However, during the Vietnam war, LDS members were over-represented in the armed services compared with the general populace.

Many of that day thought it highly improper for women to engage in religious work, but the outstanding service of nurses during the war helped to change things.

In World War II some men who had trouble with alcohol before and after had little trouble during their period of service because they found a security in the authoritarian army structure.

The head of the Anglican Church in Ireland has linked events in Gaza to World War One during a service to commemorate Britain entering the conflict 100 years ago.

Birzer shows that Kirk's formative experience was his service as a chemical - weapons expert during World War II.

My own father, hardened by bitterness that encrusted him during four years spent as a half - starved prisoner of war, walked to the front of a church at the conclusion of a service because he decided to follow Christ.

Although my background includes graduation from West Point, Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army War College, overseas service in Okinawa, Germany and Vietnam, combat duty as a company commander in Korea and chaplain assignments at every level of the army, including the Pentagon, none of this experience has prevented a gradual but inexorable change in my viewpoint during the past two years.

He requests that a hymn he wrote — probably during the days of protest against the Vietnam war — be sung at the service.

A stint in MI6, the British intelligence service, during World War II further complicated an already mysterious private world.

The greater share of the American Christian activity during the second great war was that of service, consolation, and interpretation.

I urge all Evangelicals to stand up for the truth, and not to be intimidated by the religious war of the hypocrites who likes to use the Word of God as a cloak of maliciousness against you during their lip service!

Rather, the man who had first worked at the intersection of ideas and power during his World War II service at the British Embassy in Washington was a Russo - English exponent of classic American New Deal liberalism: a liberal who believed that government had an obligation to secure the economic, social, and educational conditions under which people could truly exercise their liberty.

Except for military service during World War II, he has made his home around Orem most of his life.

During the Second World War 42 of Arsenal's 44 professional footballers were drafted into the services.

We were married when I was in the service during the Vietnam War, so we had only a rushed ceremony with a justice of the peace.

As the Iraq War came to an official end Thursday, several Chicago - area veterans and service members talked about the youthful idealism that led them into the military and the hard experience of serving in the Middle East during a war that dragged on for eight yeaWar came to an official end Thursday, several Chicago - area veterans and service members talked about the youthful idealism that led them into the military and the hard experience of serving in the Middle East during a war that dragged on for eight yeawar that dragged on for eight years.

Regardless, countless males were circumcised by military services of the U.S. and other nations during World Wars I and II in an attempt to reduce the chance that they would contract a STD.

There was not only widespread acknowledgment of atrocities committed by the government during the war but also deep resentment towards the misdistribution of funds by the Museveni regime and the resultant lack of service provision and development in the north.

I moved away from Labour during the Iraq war and I only started coming back very recently when I began to realise the services of Gordon Brown for this country.

Also at 1:30 p.m., Rep. John Katko will present the Purple Heart Medal to the family of the late John D. Smith, an Elbridge, New York native, for wounds received in service during World War I, in Vele River, France in August 1918, Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, 6001 East Molloy Rd., Syracuse.

For instance, he said, it has ever happened to the Indian military in 1999 during the Kargil War, and that, the US has the capacity as copyright to degrade the service at any time.

The legislation authored by Hudson Valley Republican and World War II comabt vet Sen. William Larkin, would amend current law that provides up to three years credit toward state pensions for military service during hostilities.

Lord Goldsmith is understood to have been warned that the flow of vital intelligence from the Saudi Government to the British secret services could be impaired following a break between the two governments over the contracts, thereby endangering national security, particularly during the war on terrorism.

Under current law, [state and local government] employees are eligible to purchase credited pension service time for up to three years of military service, providing they were in the military during the World War II, Korean War and Vietnam eras, or served in specified theaters of combat operations in Grenada, Panama or the Middle East since the 1980s.

Veterans have put the well - being of the country first and their service ought to be respected even when we disagree with the military and foreign policies of our civilian political leadership, as I did when I was a Marine during the Vietnam War.

His father and grandfather had both been thrown out of work in the shipyards during his early childhood, in the difficult days of the 1930s, but after Ellison Street elementary school and service in the Royal Engineers during the second world war, Don followed them into the Tyneside yards.

They were never defeated during 23 years of service in the Indian Wars, from 1867 to 1890.

Existing law allows only veterans who served during certain periods of combat — including World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and Iraq — to obtain pension credits for their military service.

The Westchester County Vietnam Service Medal was commissioned by Astorino to honor all active duty military from all branches stationed anywhere in the world during the years of the Vietnam War.

Gibson, a retired Army colonel, knows war, having lost men in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan during active duty service.

The research revealed that one strain of the HSV - 1 virus harbored by this individual is of a European / North American variety and the other is an Asian variety — likely acquired during the volunteer's military service in the Korean War in the 1950s.

Pamela Grim, an American emergency physician, volunteered her services at a Macedonian refugee camp during the thick of the war.

During the Vietnam War, the Defense Department tried to use social sciences — particularly anthropology — in the service of national security.

In this role, Ms. Roxland re-launched and chaired J&J's Ethics Committee, created an enterprise - wide consultation service for teams and individuals confronting complex research ethics issues, and provided guidance on issues such as post-trial access for former research participants, conducting clinical trials in war - torn regions, testing of a potential Ebola vaccine during a public health crisis, commercialization of stem cell therapies, subject recruitment and withdrawal, and expanded access / compassionate use.

During the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress established different oaths for the enlisted men and officers of the Continental Army: Enlisted: The Free online dating and matchmaking service for singles.

Beal continued appearing in films during the war years while serving in Special Services as actor and director of Army Air Force camp shows and training films.

Written in 1944 during a lull in the 40 - year - old's World War II service, the story takes place over the previous two decades and considers issues of class, religion, and the heart.

Starring Paul Rudd, Jeff Daniels, Paul Giamatti and Mark Strong — among other actors in an A-list ensemble — The Catcher Was a Spy tells the remarkable, little - known true story of Moe Berg (Rudd), a professional baseball player who became a spy in service of the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, during World War II, sent out to stop German scientist Werner Heisenberg (Strong) from building an atomic bomb for the Nazis.

Also, Disney CEO Bob Iger told investors during an investors call that they are planning on creating multiple Star Wars TV shows for their streaming service.

Even though the film is due in less than three months, we're just now getting our first look at Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford in the true story of the «Rathergate» period of CBS News when Dan Rather was unceremoniously on his way out after a 2004 report about George W. Bush's ability to avoid service during the Vietnam War...

The movie, adapted from Robert Mazur's book about his time as an undercover agent for the United States Customs Service, follows «Operation «C» Chase,» a sting operation during the mid-to-late 1980s that redirected the War on Drugs toward the oldest investigative trick in the book: Follow the money.

Not focusing on political side of the wars these soldiers are placed - in, but rather focusing on their personal stories that are attributed to conflict and how wars unjust / or just alike impact these people and their families during / after their service.