Sentences with phrase «forces special forces»

At the Army Brigade in Biu and the Armed Forces Special Forces Battalion stationed in Buratai town, the Army chief conveyed President Buhari's congratulatory message to the troops for meeting the deadline.

«However and unknown to the fleeing Boko Haram terrorists, the Armed Forces Special Forces in blocking positions decisively dealt with the terrorists; killing many, recovered vehicle, arms and ammunitions.

TROOPS CLEARS BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS OUT OF DOKSA The Nigerian Army has said that troops of 231 and 331 Battalion together with some elements of Armed Forces Special Forces Battalion of 3 Division, based on information, have entered and cleared remnants of Boko Haram terrorists hiding in Doksa general area located in Biu Local -LSB-...]

A statement from Army headquarters on Friday noted that «Similarly, troops of 7 Division Garrison, in a joint operations with 112 Battalion, Army Headquarters Support Group and Armed Forces Special Forces at Gajibo, Maula, Gamai, Gamare, Maiwa, Warsale, Tangli, Tushi, Sowa, Hasanari, Changuwa, Malamaja, and Marya in Dikwa and Mafa Local Government Areas rescued 350 people including 5 Cameroonian girls that were held hostages by the Boko Haram terrorists in those areas.

Not exact matches

«Overall, some folks will really benefit from AMT repeal, but we can't look at taxes in a vacuum,» said LaBrecque, also head of the Michigan Association of CPAs» special task force on tax changes, which ran simulations on more than 900 tax returns to see the impact of the proposed Trump tax changes.

Former Special Air Service trooper Scott Houston knows what it takes to successfully transition from the armed forces into the private sector.

Green Berets assigned to 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), enter and clear a room during a Special Forces Advanced Urban Combat (SFAUC) training exercise near Stuttgart, Germany, Nov. 16, 2017.

Green Berets assigned to the Special Forces Advanced Skills Company Sniper Detachment, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) make elevation adjustments to engage their target during an urban stress shoot on Joint Base Lewis - McChord, Wa., on 29 June, 2017.

For example, drone strikes are similar to Special Forces in their direct targeting ability in remote locations, but are less likely to create domestic opposition to the use of force because they don't put U.S. lives directly at risk.

His BFF with George, an albino gorilla who he rescued years earlier when he worked in an anti-poaching special forces unit and now lives in a conservatory.

Relying on other states to deal with threats within their own territory and using Special Operations Forces and covert action as a complement to partner forces means a minimal role for drone stForces and covert action as a complement to partner forces means a minimal role for drone stforces means a minimal role for drone strikes.

It's the organization's first recruitment campaign since 2011 to feature the navy, army and air force together along with special forces members.

March 25 - A special task force is announced to look into 1MDB and its 42 billion ringgit ($ 11.5 billion) debt.

In 2003, Gen. Stanley McChrystal took command of the United States» Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), an association of elite forces including the Navy SEALS, Army Rangers, and Delta Force.

U.S. Special Operations forces have been providing air support, training and supplies for the Syrian Kurdish group, the People's Protection Units, known as the «YPG» from its Kurdish initials.

For the study, the researchers split socially anxious volunteers into three groups — one was asked to perform random acts of kindness, one was told to follow the usual course of exposure therapy and force themselves to participate in more social situations, and another was a control group who did nothing special.

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or Sigar, recently issued a damning report that found the task force, which has since been disbanded, spent $ 43 million to build a gas station in Afghanistan when the project should have cost something in the neighborhood of $ 500,000.

Last fall, the MDA announced it would cut back the telethon to a six - hour prime time special in 2011, leading to speculation that Lewis, who has been forced to cut back his airtime considerably in recent years due to mounting heath issues, was on his way out.

Here's what we do know about the state of Afghan security forces: A September report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction indicated that ANDSF is nowhere near its 352,000 target personnel level: Afghan National Army force strength, in particular, fell from 185,817 in September 2013 to 168,327 in November 2016, thanks to increasing attrition rates and fluctuating readiness.

Given the additional political scrutiny on the Pentagon in the aftermath of the Oct. 4 ambush in Niger that killed four Army Special Forces personnel, classifying vital metrics of progress in our 16 - year - old Afghanistan campaign doesn't cast the US military in the best light.

Capt. Kathleen Atanasoff, a spokeswoman for AFCENT, cautioned that the numbers released by the command — which includes assets and actions under the Combined Forces Air Component Commander, or CFACC — don't reflect the «entirety of kinetic activity in OIR,» such as assets belonging to coalition partners or other U.S. components, like the Combined Joint Land Component Commander and Special Operations Joint Task Force.

British special forces are testing DEVTAC's Ronin helmet.

France has led airstrikes on Syria as part of the coalition and is believed to have special forces in Syria.

Sri Lanka's Special Task Force soldiers walk past a damaged houses after a clash between two communities in Digana central district of Kandy, Sri Lanka March 8, 2018.

The MOAB's deployment comes just a few days after a US Special Forces operator was killed in the same region of the country during operations against ISIS.

The state government has been forced to make a special budget allocation of $ 9.74 million to demolish the old Port Hedland hospital, 18 months after announcing a deal to sell the site to apartment developer Finbar Group.

An investigation by Buzzfeed's Aram Roston reveals that Purple Shovel LLC — founded in 2010 by former counterintelligence officer Benjamin Worrell — was paid $ 50 million by the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in December to provide the US - trained New Syrian Force with foreign weapons and ammunition.

Instead of just airstrikes and cruise - missile launches, this type of attack may necessitate US Special Forces pouring over the border to neutralize key North Korean sites.

It's almost certain that many elements of an African expeditionary force deployed to take back the north will have already received training from U.S. special operations forces.

Perhaps most shockingly, footage emerged of Free Syrian Army rebels (FSA), the group with arguably the closest ties to Washington, ordering US Special Forces out of the town of Al - Rai in northern Syria, screaming in the process that «Christians and Americans have no place among us.»

U.S. soldiers from 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) later investigated a July 4 ambush that turned into a debacle for Mali.

Both York and Turner said they had no idea what Task Force Platinum was before they arrived, and that they did not receive any special training to deal with the high - value detainees.

The technique uses high - pressure pumps to force contaminated water across a special membrane, which weeds out the bad stuff and lets the pure water through.

InSight Crime: The Zetas organization was founded by a group of deserters from the special forces of the Mexican Army.

The founders of the Zetas were defectors from the Mexican Army's Airborne Special Forces Group (Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales - GAFES), a US - trained unit considered one of the most elite in the region.

GC: The Northeast Cartel has control over operations in the state of Coahuila because the Treviño brothers had a very special role in activities there because of the protection they had from security forces.

Meanwhile, US special operations forces, who are said to be taking a training and advisory role with Iraqi and Kurdish forces, were quietly given more latitude to call in precision airstrikes and artillery.

This special forces group stopped being a part of law enforcement and became the enforcement wing of the Gulf Cartel to help protect Nuevo Laredo, the most important city for the cartel.

The origins of the Zetas are in the special forces of the Mexican Army that were trained in the counterinsurgency against the Zapatistas [leftist militant group] in southern Mexico.

The proposed increase in conventional forces would follow similar deployments in recent weeks that have supplemented special operations forces, of which roughly 500 have been on the ground for some time.

Special Forces military training, familiarity with advanced technology and a facility with languages are «must have» skills.

The recipient of several Bronze Stars and Service Medals (among other awards), Dunbar had to leave his UCLA EMBA program for a time so he could lead special forces operations inside Afghanistan, which included (in Dunbar's words) «11 different battalions, from 7 different countries, 13 different governmental and non-governmental agencies with over 6,000 personnel with no positional authority over the networked organization.»

Among the new measures pushed by branch officials, according to the New York Times: a mandate that Air Force Office of Special Investigations personnel «confirm that reportable cases have been entered in the federal database by seeing either a printout or a screenshot from the database.»

The Air Force — as well as specialized units like the special forces — have been especially burdened by ongoing military efforts over the last 20 years.

The uniform was unsatisfactory, however, and Special Forces quickly adopted the tiger stripe camouflage used by rangers in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, as seen on this sergeant first class in February 1968.

If you make it through training — and that's a big if, since only a few out of every beginning class of 200 or so candidates survives to the end — your fellow SEALs know you're coming in with an extreme level of training, toughness and willingness to be a part of the most feared and elite special operations fighting force in existence.

Relations between Pakistan and the United States have endured strain during the 16 - year war in Afghanistan, especially after Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. special forces inside Pakistan in 2011.

To understand why leaders put on these superficial shields and how to breakthrough them, I recently sat down with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan and of the Joint Special Operations Command.

Erickson has been in the middle of many deadly attacks during his time serving in the Army Special Forces and has faced violent criminals even while retired here in the States.

Example: In September 1969, Melvin Morris was a special forces sergeant serving in Vietnam, and he led a mission across enemy lines to rescue a fellow U.S. soldier.