Sentences with phrase «as a civilian for»

It is not unusual for a military member or veteran to be hired as a civilian for the same job or similar position once held while on Active Duty.

It is not unusual for a military veteran to be hired as a civilian for the same job or similar position once held while serving on Active Duty.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Stonecipher was selected for the award for his work in helping veterans train as professional helicopter pilots as a way to transition to civilian life.

But there are other ways Assad can kill hundreds of civilians at once, as he's been doing for years with virtual impunity: barrel bombs.

It «will either be a one - time, one - off, fire - and - forget retaliation for a heinous chemical - weapons assault on civilians, or it will serve as a signal to the Assad regime and its allies that the free ride for mass murder in Syria is now over,» Hof said.

Over the last several years, Google has offered military veterans and their families several tools, such as the Veterans Job Bank, for finding jobs and transitioning to civilian life.

It was originally the civilian version of the M998 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (better known as the Humvee), the replacement for the army jeep.

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

As for civilian applications, Duncan adds that the technology could be used for disaster relief or in difficult climates.

They believe too that a voluntary military and civilian national service program for young people would help alleviate the social disruption and teach important new skills and provide tutoring to disadvantaged students, help for the elderly, and improvements of public spaces such as parks and playgrounds.

Eshel cautioned residents in southern Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, to leave their homes if a new conflict erupts, saying the Iranian - backed group uses civilian homes as «launching bases for missiles and rockets»

She joined Promontory from the Department of Homeland Security, where she served as the deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity and communications and led responses to cybersecurity threats against corporations, civilians, and the government.

Damascus is still permitted to have chlorine for civilian use, although its use as a weapon is banned.

«A responsible source at the Foreign ministry expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's full support for the American military operations on military targets in Syria, which came as a response to the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians,» a statement released by state news agency SPA said on Friday.

Starbucks is creating opportunity for veterans as they transition from military service to civilian careers.

The group wrote in a recent assessment that the Coalition should «avoid, to the extent feasible, airstrikes as a primary tactic, and consider tactical alternatives — for example, properly trained SDF conducting more door - to - door clearing operations to minimize civilian harm.»

The partnership between Starbucks and Team Red, White & Blue reflects the company's commitment to creating opportunities for veterans as they transition from military service to civilian careers.

In 2011, Annette received the highest civilian honor as an Officer of The Order of Canada for her contribution to the retail industry and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.

According to Simpson, Waymo would be using public roads as its â $ laboratoriesâ $ and civilians as its â $ guinea pigs; â $ hence, it is only appropriate for the DMV to provide full transparency.

April 2016 Quick Hits: This month marked the last big stock purchase I had this year as I've begun saving up cash for a 2017 transition to the civilian sector.

In addition to building a pipeline of employment opportunities for transitioning veterans and military spouses, Starbucks is creating connections for these individuals with both civilian and veteran networks for improved reintegration through Military Family Stores, military service organization relationships and other initiatives such as:

Unlike the military drones that are already operating in Mali, the Thales drones will be used to provide aerial surveillance for civilian operations such as humanitarian convoys.

(The NSFG was created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is described as a «nationally representative of women 15 - 44 years of age in the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States.»

Witness for Peace and other religious groups, former CIA officials, and human rights organizations such as Americas Watch and Amnesty International have all documented and condemned U.S. support for the contras and other «friendly» governments that terrorize civilians.

One of the most miserable of them, Liberia, goes back to the 1840s (Haiti to the 1790s): its cry for help was voiced by a desperate Liberian, when three rival bands of heavily armed savages were engaged in slaughtering (and in some cases eating) civilians as well as each other.

«This was the first time that the weaponry of war could be fully industrialised and it was, also for the first time, that the phrase total war was coined to indicate that civilians were to be regarded as being as much part of the war as the military.»

The principle of just intent (or «right reasons,» as Bush invoked it) has been degraded as U.S. actions have escalated from defense of Saudi Arabia and economic sanctions to a massive offensive deployment; to the initiation of history's most devastating air assault, which has severely disrupted civilian life; to the imprudent demand for unconditional surrender.

He became part of a conspiracy against Hitler at the highest levels of the German government, using his role as a civilian agent in military intelligence as a cover for ecumenical contacts that allowed the conspirators to make tentative overtures toward a peace settlement with the British government.

As Nigeria begins its transition from a military to a civilian government» the process working its way up from local levels, where civilians are already in charge, to the national level, where elections are scheduled for next year» it faces the possibility of a crisis like the one that almost destroyed the country twenty - four years ago.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Though clergy and ecclesiastical officers must refrain from partisan political activity, as I have cautioned elsewhere, condemning the taking of innocent lives is not partisan, whether through protesting abortion clinics or (as the British clergy did in World War II) denouncing a government for bombing civilian targets.

From the time she denounced Britain's participation in World War II as a girl (because it was plain to her, just months out of her teens, that Britain would be carrying out deliberate attacks on civilians), through her widely publicized opposition as a young don to Oxford's awarding an honorary degree to Harry Truman (on the ground that «having a couple of massacres to his credit» disqualifies a man for public honors), to her recent arrests in her seventies for participation in pro-life actions parallel to those carried out by «Operation Rescue» in the United States (because she found the life of a conceived child as worthy of protection and respect as any other), her life recalls John Paul II's injunction: «Always seek the truth; venerate the truth discovered; obey the truth.

Israel must stop using civilian settlers as human shields for the land it is stealing.»

No one knows for sure, but it is estimated that nearly 200,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed as a result of the U.S. - led War in Iraq.

The MP for Strangford, Jim Shannon explained that he did think action was necessary and went further than Theresa May, saying: «There has to be a missile attack and response to the chemical attacks on innocent civilians in Syria as there was before and there needs to be again.

And yes we as a society need to have a reasoned conversation about the need for military - style assault weapons and large - capacity magazines in the civilian sector.

The Hustle For Heroes Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to eroding the challenges our veterans face as they transition back to civilian life.

As you prepare for that move back to the civilian world, they can be a wealth of information.

Working for the Army as a civilian.

Spent the last 5 years working for the Army as a civilian in Germany and moved back to the US in August.

At a community meeting last week, the debate between residents heated up when a civilian beat facilitator, who acts as a go - between for police and residents, said gang problems at Haas Park have declined dramatically despite the shooting.

«The plan for Darfur from now on is to achieve a cease - fire, including an end to aerial bombings of civilians; drive forward peace talks... and, as peace is established, offer to begin to invest in recovery and reconstruction.»

Going further back in time, the UN established the Nuremberg principles as justification for the Nuremberg trials, and then turned a blind eye to post-war violations of plundering public / private property, and forced civilian population transfers.

She called for the rebels to renounce suicide attacks, especially those that involved bombers dressed as civilians.

Generally speaking, in a genuine military conflict between nations, it is not considered a war crime to target a military installation that is used by «combatants» in a conflict (as opposed to civilians or hospitals for the wounded, for example).

According to Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, «the [Saudi - led] Coalition is responsible for twice as many civilian casualties as all other forces put together, virtually all as a result of airstrikes».

For it does provide ample opportunities to all those who wield power in Pakistan — security establishment and civilian rulers as well as assertive higher judiciary and vibrant mass media as emerging pillars of influence — to turn the tables against Taliban.

All civilians will be struggling for survival by learning the main patterns of military action and hiding from them as best they can.