Sentences with phrase «many gulf war»

«A lot of people put me into a box, which is what a lot of veterans face when they go into the civilian world,» said J.R. Martinez, one of the best - known veterans of the second Gulf War.

Troops bringing the American flag back to Iraq in 2003 or deploying to Afghanistan in the same time period received just a little more than their Persian Gulf War predecessors, with $ 1,064.70 for soldiers with less than four months of service and $ 1,150.80 for the seasoned veterans with four months or more under their belts.

Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, and the subsequent Gulf War, further dampened things.

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

Vester, who had reported from the Middle East and covered the Gulf War for NBC, was 28 when she was in Colorado in 1993 with Brokaw to cover Pope John Paul II's visit to the U.S.

Former CIA officer Ned Price found a series of news reports, including from the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, and the L.A. Times, that referred to Pompeo serving in the Gulf War.

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.»

The CIA told Splinter News that «Director Pompeo was in the U.S. Army at the time of the Gulf War — serving until 1991.

The CIA has confirmed that Mike Pompeo, that agency's current director and current nominee for Secretary of State, was not deployed in the first Gulf War, despite widespread statements that he served in that conflict.

Analysts shot down American claims of intercepting Iraqi missiles during the 1991 Gulf War.

Movie Budgets «Courage under Fire»: $ 46m «Saving Private Ryan»: $ 70m «Titan AE»: $ 75m «Syriana»: $ 50m «Green Zone»: $ 100m «Elysium»: $ 115m «Interstellar»: $ 165m «The Martian»: $ 108m TOTAL: $ 729m Fictional Costs of Saving Matt Damon (costs are in 2015 currency) «Courage Under Fire» (Gulf War 1 helicopter rescue): $ 300k «Saving Private Ryan» (WW2 Europe search party): $ 100k «Titan AE» (Earth evacuation spaceship): $ 200B «Syriana» (Middle East private security return flight): $ 50k «Green Zone» (US Army transport from Middle East): $ 50k «Elysium» (Space station security deployment and damages): $ 100m «Interstellar» (Interstellar spaceship): $ 500B «The Martian» (Mars mission): $ 200B TOTAL: $ 900B plus change

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.

«Historically, the bill for these costs has come due many decades later,» Bilmes noted in a recent study, disability expenses for WW I veterans peaked in 1969 and for WW II veterans in the late 1980s, the cost of caring for Vietnam and first Gulf War veterans is still climbing.

Before branching out on his own, he was one of legendary investor Julian Robertson's first so - called tiger cubs, responsible for some big market calls during the 1990s such as the collapse of oil prices after start of the Persian Gulf War and the plunge in the British pound.

Euronews was created in the wake of the 1990 Gulf War as a «European CNN» and used to be owned by a consortium of state - owned European channels before Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris took a 53 percent stake in the broadcaster.

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.

The senior Israeli official who defended Iron Dome said he understood the skepticism because the world's first antimissile war — which erupted over Israel in 1991 during the gulf war — did produce exaggerated claims of success.

For example, Patriot batteries in the 1991 Gulf War had software that caused tracking errors after extended operation (GAO 1992).

For example, during the 1991 Gulf War, American Patriot batteries initially claimed interception of 95 percent of incoming Scud missiles, but later reduced that to 59 percent.

US Central Intelligence Agency director and Army veteran Mike Pompeo never served in the Gulf War.

This sharp increase is around the same size as the increase that occurred in 1990, as a result of the Gulf War, but is considerably smaller than the increases that occurred in the 1970s.

We caught Arthur Kent, the former NBC war correspondent known as the â $ œScud Studâ $ during his reports from the first Gulf war, on Jesse Brownâ $ ™ s Canadaland podcast this week.

And yet Gulf War II - era vets still face higher unemployment rates than the general population — 15.5 % for female vets, 9.2 % for male vets.

The Veterans Transition Franchise Initiative (VetFran Program) was established by Don Dwyer, Sr. — founder of Dwyer Group — soon after the Gulf War ended in 1991.

I am a veteran of the Gulf War and did 3 tours in Afghanistan and 2 in Iraq.

One surprising result of the dominance of the Gulf war was that the Assembly avoided taking action on the demands of aboriginal and indigenous peoples.

After vigorous debate, participants issued statements condemning the Gulf war, passed on others to the WCC Central Committee calling for sweeping changes in South Africa, the Baltic states, and other hot spots, and embraced the WCC's own «new world order» scheme.

@leelanau Before the Gulf War, what did Muslims ever do to the United States or the west?

Yeah, I understand, but its a bit like when «Comical Ali» claimed on TV that the Iraqis were beating the Americans back during the second gulf war.

The main reason for the Niebuhr revival, as demonstrated by Charles Lemert's new book, Why Niebuhr Matters, is that liberals started rereading The Irony of American History during the Gulf Wars.

I was living at HQEucom during the first Gulf War.

Then there is the way in which Americans determine their own national interest» from manifest destiny, to Woodrow Wilson's crusade for democracy, to the delegitimation of America's war in Vietnam, to the debate over just war and the Gulf War.

On the eve of the Gulf War, I preached a sermon in which I expressed my opposition to the imminent invasion.

It is likely that the outcome of these negotiations will be more fateful than the Persian Gulf War, yet they are still discussed only in narrow circles.

We spoke of the global dimension of the social organisation of society, of the political not only the economic dimension of the problem of the problem of refugees throughout the world, the process of democratisation, the problem of private property, of taxation, of the problem of unemployment, of the state, of oil and its significance for the Gulf War, of the question of the right to live and of nuclear apartheid etc..

How many of these conflicts were religious in nature: WWI - no WW II — no Spanish civil war — no Korean war — No Vietnam war no Chinese civil war — no Russian Civil War no 1st gulf war no Bosnia — significant religious aspect The endless civil wars in Africa — some of them Afghanistan / iraq wars — started my islamic fundamentalists.

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 War.

High - tech «virtual war,» as in the Gulf War and Kosovo, where nobody gets hurt (at least on our side) is a dangerous delusion, he convincingly argues.

Recently, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the Gulf War made clear that the changes of recent times have reaffirmed the hegemony of the West in a large part of the world.

The gulf war, both in the ways it is like all wars and in the ways it is unique, makes the testing both concrete and urgent, while also heightening the chances that the «facts» available when this text is drafted will have been changed by the time it reaches readers.

Public dialogue in the U.S. about the Persian Gulf war has drawn heavily on the language of the just war tradition — more so than has been the case with any war since at least the 1860s.

During the 1st Gulf War, Sadaam Hussein trageted the Kurdish people.

Why did you approve the 1990 Gulf War?

We think: Saddam Hussein and his murderous regime, the Gulf War and the 2003 coalition - led invasion.

Then there is the sad and, to my mind, unmistakable fact that people who have adopted the so - called «presumption against war» tend to get things wrong, time and again: as the U.S. bishops got the dynamics of the Cold War wrong in their 1983 pastoral letter, «The Challenge of Peace»; as most religious leaders and intellectuals got it wrong in predicting a Middle East Armageddon in the first Gulf War and the recent Iraq War.

Applying these three analyses to the TV images of the Gulf War offers some...

Some are veterans of the Gulf War, while others served in Iraq.

After citing Matthew's reminder that «the meek shall inherit the earth,» the president proceeded, not so meekly, to offer a rousing homily on the righteousness of the Gulf War.

In fact, however, Neuhaus avoided any substantive application of just war criteria to the Gulf War itself, obviously preferring to seize one more occasion to beat up on religious leaders who don't share his brand of neoconservatism.

His many books and articles include: Development Planning in Iran: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic (1987); The Economic Consequences of the Gulf War (1990); and Globalisation for the Common Good (2002).