Sentences with phrase «war train in the general»

Keaton running and clambering onto a moving Civil War train in The General is infinitely more exciting than Christian Slater jumping from a helicopter onto a speeding locomotive in Broken Arrow because what Keaton does is real, and the camera captures and preserves his feats for posterity.

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• In 1981 the CIA director, William Casey, arranged for Argentinean generals, experienced from a war of terror against their own people, to train the contras.

DETROIT General Manager Ted Lindsay invited 83 players to training camp, gave them AGGRESSIVE HOCKEY IS BACK IN TOWN T shirts, and said, «You've heard of Star Wars, well, this is going to be «Ice Wars.»»

Mike served around the world: the DMZ in Korea, defending the German border in the Cold War, commanding an infantry company in Desert Storm with the 1st Armored Division, serving as a European foreign area officer, earning two masters degrees from Indiana University, teaching at West Point and the Command and General Staff College, leading logistics units in Hawaii, and commanding two training battalions after the attacks of 9/11.

During the game you are trained by Gray Fox, and he serves as a mentor to Snake, teaching him what he needs to know about combat, survival and war in general.

Believe it or not, most of the general public recognizes that they need to turn to expertise on matters they are not trained in, despite this being seen as an inherent fallacy in blog wars.

• Secured procurement of $ 2,500,000 materiel handling equipment for new 240,000 square foot warehouse distribution centers at Joint Repair Parts Command and General Depot Command • Succinctly managed 71 deployment taskings for Eighth Air Force personnel; always 100 % on - time Deployment Requirement Manning Document delivery to base Installation Deployment Officer • Coordinated with Air Force Global Strike Command on tasking verifications — slashed deployment shortfalls by 50 % • Co-lead with item manager on critical B - 52 brake mission capable issues; production up over 60 % — kept 76 B - 52s combat primed • Spearheaded transfer of 439 Headquarters Eighth Air Force weapons to 2 BW — vital assets valued at $ 290,000 available for redistribution • Remarkable leadership; revamped Eighth Air Force deployment process — slashed late responses by 65 % and reclamas by 25 % • Prepped 175 9MMs and 266 M16s for Combat Arms Training and Maintenance inspection — 100 % compliant for 1st time in 2 years; reorganized annex space — 40 % more • Oversaw 2 peninsula wide Staff Assistance Visits; assessed 5 sites and $ 1,800,000,000 War Reserve Materiel program; 497 findings 98.4 % fixed — Air Support Group prepped to ace Unit Compliance Inspection • Launched premier vehicular support to NASA and FEMA teams during Space Shuttle Columbia crisis • Quickly transitioned flight from Strategic Command exercise to wartime status in aftermath of September 11th attacks — 27,000 gallons of JP - 8 issued to Air Force One and escort aircraft; base efforts lauded by President