Sentences with phrase «gulf war a year»

The US military had ended the Gulf war a year earlier and the economy had just come out of a mild recession in the middle of 91».

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Keith Orr was active in the Army for 24 years, serving in in the first Gulf War, Haiti, Egypt, Ukraine, Kosovo and Iraq.

An April 12th letter from Republican members of the House of Representatives, sent to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in support of Pompeo's nomination, approvingly cited Pompeo's «five years serving in the United States Army, including in the Gulf War.»

Last year's strikes were unauthorized and strategically ineffective,» retired Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, who served under McMaster during the Persian Gulf War, told CNBC.

Whilst externally the aircraft is almost identical, the avionics of the current A-10C has virtually nothing to do with the old «Hawg» that became particularly famous as the «Tank - buster» during the first Gulf War 25 years.

But among them, the Saudis and smaller Gulf states have more than enough cash stashed in reserves, as well as sovereign wealth funds — at least $ 3 - trillion in various funds they can tap — to wage this price war for years.

Major Western powers such as the USA and Great Britain have been willing in recent years to resort to war, although many Christians in the USA opposed the Gulf Wwar, although many Christians in the USA opposed the Gulf WarWar.

G, I served over 27 years, nearly 5 years deployed to the Persian Gulf region for the war effort.

A year ago, as we gathered in the wake of the Gulf war, the grief in the room was palpable.

He actually spent 27 years in the military, ergo giving me a special respect for the Armed Forces and a strange but natural patriotism long before the Gulf War and Lee Greenwood's «Proud To Be An American.»

George H.W. Bush got egg on his face for his Read my lips promise and then, 3 years later, raising taxes to pay for the gulf war.

She served on active duty for eight years, learning Russian and working in military intelligence before a deployment to Iraq during the Gulf War.

More than 20 years after the Gulf War, the possibility that something happened to the brains of these veterans is now taken seriously

Yale University psychiatrist Steven Southwick surveyed Gulf War veterans first one month and then two years after experiencing traumatic events.

It is two years since I was in Baghdad in May 1993, but no one, however dismayed at a humanitarian situation in which half a million children have died since the Gulf War, can shrug aside the biological weapons issue.

A report published earlier this year by the US Institute of Medicine concluded that there was no firm evidence that Gulf War veterans were suffering more of these symptoms than the population at large, and if they were, whether there was a single cause.

The Gulf War, along with the ensuing years of trade embargoes, weakened Iraqi health care, but the policies of a despot nearly dismantled the national pride.

Yale University psychiatrist Steven Southwick surveyed Gulf War veterans first one month, then two years after traumatic events.

Twenty years of scientific research has traced these symptoms to Gulf War chemical exposures and the drugs taken during deployment that were meant to prevent or counteract these exposures.

Gulf War veterans have complained for years that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has not taken the illness seriously.

Four years after Saddam Hussein's forces were harried from Kuwait at the end of the Gulf War, the desert state is still a mess.

White and colleagues have been studying the health of troops deployed in the 1991 Gulf War for more than 20 years to determine why so many of them suffer from a multi-system disorder characterized by fatigue, joint and muscle pain, headaches, concentration and memory problems, gastrointestinal distress, and skin rashes.

«No comprehensive information has been published on the mortality experience of U.S. Gulf War era veterans after the year 2000,» according to the report.

After a study last year on Gulf War veterans showed a certain allele may prevent brain atrophy, University researchers wanted to extend the research to the general population.

1970s and further development of U.S. Special Forces, Post - Vietnam developments, Delta Force, 1979 - Operation Eagle Claw in Iran (tragedy), Use of SF in Grenada and Panama, Persian Gulf War 1990 - 1991 (set up Rangers / Delta in Somalia 2 years later)

Synopsis: Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) finds himself having terrible nightmares.

In the years that followed, he covered the wars in Central America, social and political strife in South America, the first Gulf War, the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and the transitions to democracy in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Three Kings Year: 1999 Director: David O. Russell Armed with invention, flare and an unflinching point of view, indie filmmaker David O. Russell charged into Hollywood and made an absolutely stunning war film — honest and unapologetic in its depiction of the Gulf Wwar film — honest and unapologetic in its depiction of the Gulf WarWar.

The worship of money and the market, accompanied by the notion that «force works» (in the blunt words of the Wall Street Journal following the Persian Gulf War in 1991), exercised an especially unhealthy influence in these years.

Ramsay retreated to Santorini, Greece and began writing, and within less than a year's time, adapted Jonathan Ames» novella You Were Never Really Here about a PTSD Gulf War vet / former FBI agent - turned - addled assassin who gets hired to bust a senator's daughter out of a sex - trafficking ring.

It brilliantly investigates, from every angle, the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, and the gripping conclusion it comes to is that Timothy McVeigh, the 27 - year - old Gulf War veteran who killed 168 people that day, wasn't «crazy» so much as he was the disturbed quintessence of the new right wing.

MARAD prepared the Ready Reserve ships for a record number of successful military missions — the most in one year since the build - up for the Gulf War in 2003.

In 2003, on the eve of the second Gulf War, Curtis Stone, a 40 - year - old African - American ex-Marine, arrives in Las Vegas from his Philadelphia home.

Note: During the Persian Gulf War, the foregoing exceptions to the 2 - year requirement apply, except that 90 days of active duty is sufficient in lieu of 181 days.

The upcoming war games in the Gulf of Alaska will not be the first such exercises in the region — they have been conducted, on and off, for the last 30 years — but they will be the largest by far.

The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the ozone holes haven't got bigger, the world hasn't entered a new ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?

But most governments remain paralyzed, unable to take action — even after years of volatile gasoline prices, repeated wars in the Persian Gulf, one energy - related disaster after another, and a seemingly endless stream of unprecedented and lethal weather disasters.

Lord Goldsmith's argument was that the authority to use force given by the Security Council 12 years earlier during the first Gulf war, and which was followed by a ceasefire a few months later, could still be relied on.

1988 - 1991 - US Navy «Weekend Warrior» * Continued in helicopters for the first two years, and a reserve SEAL team for the last year leading up to the Gulf War.

Effects of war - induced maternal separation on children's adjustment during the gulf war and two years later.

I too spent over 22 years as a member of the Canadian Armed forces and served in many tours such As the Gulf War, Multiple tours in Bosnia and the former republic of Yugoslavia, and many more not mentioned.

«Phil's being a real estate salesperson has benefited us in a huge way,» says Al Pavich, president and CEO of VVSD, who has worked with Landis for nine years and is a veteran of the Vietnam and the 1991 Persian Gulf wars.

The report notes Gulf Coast ports are also winners in the trade wars, particularly Port Houston, which was the strongest port - centric industrial market in the U.S., averaging 2.3 million square feet of total net absorption over the past 10 years.