Sentences with phrase «as military mission»

But we could see previous rockets taken for re-use for commercial launches as well as military mission.

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Billed as the Trump administration's new strategy on Syria, the announcement will prolong the risks and redefine the mission for the U.S. military, which has for years sought to define its operations in Syria along more narrow lines of battling Islamic State and has about 2,000 U.S. ground forces in the country.

BEIJING / TAIPEI (Reuters)- Chinese aircraft have again flown around self - ruled Taiwan in what China's air force on Thursday called a «sacred mission», as Taiwan denounced its big neighbour over what it called a policy of military intimidation.

As the # 1 provider of education to the U.S. military, our mission is to provide an affordable, flexible, and relevant education to all those who serve.

Gonzalez, however, made the case that, as in the military, Starbucks stores are about uniting to achieve a mission.

The more than one million transitioning U.S. veterans and almost one and half million military spouses — with their diverse background and experience — share our mission - driven sensibility and work ethic and can build long - term careers at Starbucks as they return home

In its recent report, Still Too Fat to Fight, the nonprofit Mission: Readiness, which is run by retired military leaders, found that roughly 25 percent of young adults ages 17 to 24 are too overweight to qualify for military service and it targeted junk food vending machines in schools as a contributor to this problem.

To honor its current veteran franchisees and operators, and in light of «Mission: Readiness,» a nonprofit group consisting of 300 of the nation's retired military leaders who want to tackle junk food vending, HUMAN Healthy Vending is now offering discounted machine pricing to current members of the US Military (any branch) as well as those veterans who have received an honorable discharge from a branch of the US Military and would like to start a healthy vending bmilitary leaders who want to tackle junk food vending, HUMAN Healthy Vending is now offering discounted machine pricing to current members of the US Military (any branch) as well as those veterans who have received an honorable discharge from a branch of the US Military and would like to start a healthy vending bMilitary (any branch) as well as those veterans who have received an honorable discharge from a branch of the US Military and would like to start a healthy vending bMilitary and would like to start a healthy vending business.

As I noted in an earlier post, Mission: Readiness, an organization of former high - ranking military officials concerned about obesity and other health problems in military recruits and personnel, has issued a hard - hitting defense of USDA's school nutrition standards.

Additionally, the US occasionally feeds uncertainty with actions that leave other players puzzled, such as the secret missions of X-37B, a military plane that can be tracked from the ground but whose precise orbit is undisclosed, as is its mission's purpose.

Lord Ashcroft's extensive collection of Special Forces medals, believed to be the largest in the world, has been used as part of a dramatic reconstruction for a television series about selected dangerous covert military missions on FIVE (November 2008).

Government deploys military might as on a mission to fight some formidable enemy, so even before Election Day, citizens walk about totally intimidated and confused.

The troopers will join 120 New York National Guard Military Police, 60 National Guard members from an aviation regiment, 125 National Guard engineers, 30 state Department of Transportation truck drivers already there as part of the state's ongoing post-Hurricane Maria aid mission.

Tartus functions as the sole Russian navy base outside the former Soviet Union, serving the Russian army on Mediterranean missions and hosting the military advisers who instruct Syrians in how to use their Russian - made weapons.

In the military, health professionals are much more aware of their social mission as purveyors of public health than they are normally as civilians treating individual patients, Williams - Jones added.

Some Western political analysts interpreted Yang Liwei's adventure as an exercise for future military missions, but Bates Gill, who holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., sees a more complex agenda: «The core motivation for the Chinese government is prestige, to send a signal to the world that it's a rising player.

Israel's military response - resulting in the deaths of 56 people (3 hostages, 1 Israeli soldier, 7 hijackers, and 45 Ugandan soldiers)- is regarded as one of the more audacious rescue missions in modern history.

As he is winding up his military career after 20 - odd years of acting as an enforcer for a government bent on eradicating natives, he soon becomes the victim of changing social values when he is chosen as the escort on a mission of mercy to repatriate a dying Cheyenne chief back to his native WyominAs he is winding up his military career after 20 - odd years of acting as an enforcer for a government bent on eradicating natives, he soon becomes the victim of changing social values when he is chosen as the escort on a mission of mercy to repatriate a dying Cheyenne chief back to his native Wyominas an enforcer for a government bent on eradicating natives, he soon becomes the victim of changing social values when he is chosen as the escort on a mission of mercy to repatriate a dying Cheyenne chief back to his native Wyominas the escort on a mission of mercy to repatriate a dying Cheyenne chief back to his native Wyoming.

What Powell and the British military (with assistance from their US allies) originally planned as a capture mission quickly turns into a kill order.

We eventually learn that Kane's prolonged, distant missions and need to preserve military secrecy, strained their bond; regret and guilt for an affair, as well as grief, now drive Lena to go where no women have gone before.

Arnold Schwarzenegger (Commando, The Terminator) stars as Dutch Schaeffer, who, along with his crew of elite special ops commandos, is sent to the jungle of a hostile Latin American country on a covert rescue mission to save the bacons of a previous military crew rumored to be held hostage there.

Seven days later, 100 Israeli commandos climbed into military transport planes for a perilous low - level night flight of 2,500 miles described as the most daring rescue mission in history and...

Mace, a military engineer, is driven, pragmatic, and places great value in personal responsibility even as he struggles with the vast length of the mission.

Stars: Matt Barr, Charlie Barnett, Christina Ochoa, Nigel Thatch, Corbin Reid, Melissa Roxburgh, W. Tré Davis Producers: Bill Haber, Kyle Jarrow Premise: Set at a U.S. Army base that houses an elite unit of helicopter pilots trained to perform clandestine international and domestic missions, the drama unfolds in the present as well as in flashbacks to a failed mission involving one of the first female pilots in the unit, ultimately uncovering layers of personal and government / military secrets, and leading to a season - long plan to rescue a group of MIA soldiers.

Starring Jared Harris and Tobias Menzies as members of the Royal Navy, The Terror centers around a group of military men who become isolated during a dangerous mission discovering the Northern Passage.

As he looks back, he says he was attracted to the military's «faith to mission, the commitment to excellence because of the deep understanding that they can not fail.»

«Dan's background as a military and commercial pilot and past leadership positions in FAA and the aviation sector ensures a seamless transition to continue the important mission of the FAA,» said Secretary Chao.

As Walter Dean Myers says in the introduction to Antarctica, his fascination with the earth's coldest regions began, appropriately enough, during the Cold War, when he was on the U.S.S. Shadwell on a military mission taking supplies to a remote base inside the Arctic Circle.

Rambo is the 2015 Military Dog Representative Having served more than 600 missions as an explosives detection military working dog with the Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) at the Corps» air station in Cherry Point, N.C., Rambo, a German Shepherd Dog, represented the Military Dog category sponsored by the Zoetis RIMADYL K - 9 Courage Military Dog Representative Having served more than 600 missions as an explosives detection military working dog with the Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) at the Corps» air station in Cherry Point, N.C., Rambo, a German Shepherd Dog, represented the Military Dog category sponsored by the Zoetis RIMADYL K - 9 Courage military working dog with the Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) at the Corps» air station in Cherry Point, N.C., Rambo, a German Shepherd Dog, represented the Military Dog category sponsored by the Zoetis RIMADYL K - 9 Courage Military Dog category sponsored by the Zoetis RIMADYL K - 9 Courage Program.

Our organization's purpose for existence is to serve retiring and retired Military Working Dogs, Contract Working Dogs, and other Dogs who Serve as they may fit into our mission and scope.

As working dogs become increasingly important to the military mission, work is under way to help protect them from enemy threats.

There are historical landmarks, such as Mission Santa Barbara and the Presidio of Santa Barbara, originally a Spanish military installation and chapel and presently a church.

There's a couple of cutscenes on offer here that bookend the primary mission, which has you rescuing two old faces from a military base, and they present little in the way of story, though the ending does at least serve as a solid cliffhanger to get fans a little more excited for the real game.

This nail - biting mission onto a Cuban military base follows Snake as he attempts to rescue Paz from enemy imprisonment.

Some of the missions may feel tenuous at times or downright frustrating, but the story has a military feel, missions are challenging, and it works as a sniper game.

At the end of each mission, win or lose, I tend to walk away feeling as though I've learned something about modern military tactics.

Jump into the action with Unit 13 for PlayStation Vita and conquer 36 tactical missions and 9 high value target battles as you help take down global terror networks and earn your place in the military elite.

In fact, for a game that presents itself as a shooter, it's notable just how advisable it is to avoid combat unless absolutely necessary, with successful mission progress relying just as much on stealth as military might.

In Call of Duty Advanced Warfare players will take on the role of Private Mitchell as they try to complete missions for Jonathan Irons, voiced by Kevin Spacey), the leader of this corporation military force in a war against the United States.

Aside from that I found I needed both an encyclopedic knowledge of the Front Mission timeline and universe (LegaiaRules was a huge help there) as well as a pretty thorough knowledge of world affairs and military history, which the series is famous for.

The political aspect, while not as visible as the military one, was equally important in conveying the nature of the political issues in Front Mission 5.

This music sets the right mood for the entire adventure as it follows a military organisation called the Secundady, more specifically its 7th Division called Pharzuph, as it goes on missions across the world aboard its ship, the Schildkröte (German for «turtle»).

The term «dawn patrol» (used to reference both early - morning military missions and surfers seeking untouched waves) inspires a new series of paintings from Smith, who's covered canvases in striations of blue and white paint that resolve as rolling waves.

If you take an objective look at what the Military is saying with regard to mission preparedness you would see the ideas of Low Intensity Conflict *, humanitarian assistance, and resource protection as their short term focus.

a basing structure secure from threats posed by climate change as well as more traditional foes is a real national security consideration... We must anticipate new and revised missions for our military forces and factor those into our calculations of the consequences of climate change for America's national security.

HAARP coordinated military action of chemical spraying (actual official name being SOLAR RADIATION MANAGEMENT — ignoring the military mission of weather control just to accuse us of paranoia fear of an alleged claimed as poisoning SPECIFIC purpose of chemtrails does not show OUR ignorance ---RRB- started in the end of the nineties — when HAARP was created — .

(9) With respect to offenses committed by or against a national of the United States as that term is used in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act --(A) the premises of United States diplomatic, consular, military or other United States Government missions or entities in foreign States, including the buildings, parts of buildings, and land appurtenant or ancillary thereto or used for purposes of those missions or entities, irrespective of ownership; and (B) residences in foreign States and the land appurtenant or ancillary thereto, irrespective of ownership, used for purposes of those missions or entities or used by United States personnel assigned to those missions or entities.

While the Commission has commented on the planning and organization of the mission, this critique should not be interpreted to mean that the actual plan as developed by the Israeli military or the organization of the mission led to a systemic misapplication of force by the soldiers involved or a breach of international law.

Reflecting on the entrepreneurs I heard pitch at this and other veteran events I've participated in as a venture capitalist and advisor, I noticed a strong difference in the companies founded by military veterans — veterans are much more likely than others to create a company with a founding mission of social good.

Pilot — fly fast jets for combat or ground attack missions, transport aircraft to deliver humanitarian aid or military support, and helicopters for duties such as search and rescue missions.