Sentences with phrase «combat operations in»

Since the start of combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States and other nations have begun to use Private Military Companies to supplement or augment their forces.

President George Bush had announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq several months before, and Hale expected the occasional casualty amid routine dental care.

Marine Staff Sergeant Javier O. Ortiz Rivera was killed while conducting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

The base population began to decline as the United States formally ended its combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, falling to 17,269 last year.

A decorated Marine Corps veteran who was severely wounded in combat operations in Vietnam, Behan served as director of the New York State Division of Veterans» Affairs from 1995 to 1998.

«Today I am honored to be a part of this well - deserved recognition of Sgt. Mark Rademacher, who paid the ultimate price on October 25, 1983 during combat operations in Grenada,» said Legislator Lorigo.

Under current law, [state and local government] employees are eligible to purchase credited pension service time for up to three years of military service, providing they were in the military during the World War II, Korean War and Vietnam eras, or served in specified theaters of combat operations in Grenada, Panama or the Middle East since the 1980s.

** The current law does not offer the added retirement buyback opportunity to veterans of combat operations in Afghanistan, Somalia, or the Balkans.

Marine Sergeant Nicholas Aleman died while supporting combat operations in Paktia Province.

Lance Corporal Aaron M. Swanson died while conducting combat operations in Helmand Province.

The news conference will come at an action - packed time for the President, just days after he helped launch direct Middle East peace talks and gave a prime - time Oval Office address on the end of combat operations in Iraq, as well as falling less than two months before a critical midterm election where Democrats» majorities in the House and Senate are on the ropes largely because of the nation's economic uncertainty.

Responsibility for combat operations in the bitterly contested Sangin area in Helmand has been formally handed over to US forces.

In 2001, the United States began combat operations in Afghanistan with 1,935 dead and 17,025 wounded against DEVOUT MUSLIM FOLLOWERS of ISLAM!.

The Taliban have made steady inroads since NATO ended its main combat operation in 2014 and are now estimated to control or contest at least 40 percent of the country.

Not exact matches

However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of civilian casualties from combat operations as fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.

After 16 years and $ 120 billion spent on the reconstruction of Afghanistan since the US invasion, the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces are alarmingly unprepared to take on the resurgent Taliban that's slowly clawed back territory since NATO combat operations ended there in 2014.

The elite combat engineering unit, known by its Hebrew acronym Yahalom, has been doubled in size since the operation, and the unit's base in Sirkin, outside Tel Aviv, is now equipped with an exact replica of a Hamas tunnel for training purposes.

Disbanding the Iraqi Army, the only indigenous forces that could have been revitalized and used to help secure Iraq in the aftermath of major combat operations

With its activation has come a massive increase in the American footprint, and its first combat engagement — Operation Odyssey Dawn, which enacted a no - fly zone over Libya.

Later, he deployed to Helmand Afghanistan as a forward observer with British ground units where he engaged in combat operations against the Taliban.

«After more than a decade combatting violent extremists and conducting contingency operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and most recently Syria, [the Defense Department] has prioritized the rebalancing of its forces in recent budget requests to build and sustain the capabilities necessary to prevail across a full range of potential contingencies,» states a Government Accountability Office report released in June.

Even in jurisdictions with more robust reporting, the Trump administration has continued to use Obama - era terms to conceal direct combat operations.

Sgt. Joshua Smith, a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team, chats with an Afghan boy during an Afghan - led clearing operation, April 28, 2012, in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.

U.S. Soldiers assigned to Battery A, 1st Battalion, 41st Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, fire the Paladin M109A6 Artillery System with 155 mm artillery rounds during Operation Anakonda in the Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area (DPTA) near Oleszno, Poland, June 14, 2016.

U.S. Soldier Staff Sgt. Keith Jackson assigned to Battery B, 1st Battalion, 41st Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, prepares to hook up the lanyard to fire the Paladin M109A6 Artillery System during Operation Anakonda in the Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area (DPTA) near Oleszno, Poland, June 14, 2016.

«America's Navy still holds the title of best in the world, but our recent years of combat and physical uncertainty have eroded our warfighting advantage,» Admiral John Michael Richardson, chief of Naval operations, told the House Appropriations Committee on Defense in March.

NATO is expected to spend more on defense and increase its military presence in Afghanistan by «a few thousand more troops,» said the alliance's chief, insisting that the coalition troops will not participate in combat operations.

There are several aspects to this: first of all, avoiding IDF casualties in a ground operation, and also a financial aspect, since a day of ground combat costs about NIS 1 billion.

Regulation Management In October the OECD's Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project released a report outlining its progress on a series of steps it was taking to combat tactics — often legal but ethically questionable — used by many multinational companies to reduce or eliminate tax liabilities across their operations.

Well as heard in the news that those arriving to the west are being well trained on sophisticated equipment's and combat training and then sent back to Somalia to fight as opposition to prolong suffering for the area and others sent to lead pirate operations in the area and that is all done to give an excuse for the western Navy to be present in the area as well as to cause the raise of the insurance premium against the ships passing the area raising therefore the costs of commodities as well as an opportunity for private security companies to flourish guarding the passing ships?

Women aviators were excluded from combat missions until the month after Mrs Shults got off active duty in March 1993, but Mr Flanders said Mrs Shults flew during Operation Desert Storm trainings as an aggressor enemy pilot.

The corollary would be that a diminution of the public honor accorded to those who died in combat might be desirable in helping Mr. Hayes win his next round of foreign policy disputes with John McCain - disputes that he might otherwise lose in public argument about the merits of the military operation in question.

In 2012, law enforcement authorities planned and carried out a large - scale operation to combat human trafficking in AfricIn 2012, law enforcement authorities planned and carried out a large - scale operation to combat human trafficking in Africin Africa.

This wise counsel is not only great advice for leaders preparing for combat operations, but it is also crucial for those in the job market today.

«God's role is not the combat of productive force with productive force, of destructive force with destructive force; it lies in the patient operation of the over-powering rationality of his conceptual harmonization «16 Thus at times Whitehead appears to say, as Ely contends, that evil remains evil in the world of events («God can not unmake the past») but that in God's experience evil is transmuted into goodness.

Whitehead says, «God's role is not the combat of productive force with productive force; of destructive force with destructive force, it lies in the patient operation of the overpowering rationality of his conceptual harmonization» (PR 346/525 -6).

- Operation Iraqi Freedom - The 24/7 Sunni - Shiite centuries - old blood feud currently being carried out in Iraq, US Troops killed in action, 3,480 and 928 in non combat roles as of 09/15/2011 /, 102,522 — 112,049 Iraqi civilians killed as of 9/16/2011 /, mostly due http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf

«God's role is not the combat of productive force with productive force, of destructive force with destructive force; it lies in the patient operation of the overpowering rationality of his conceptual harmonization» (PR 525f).

- Operation Iraqi Freedom - The 24/7 Sunni - Shiite centuries - old blood feud currently being carried out in Iraq, US Troops killed in action, 3,480 and 928 in non combat roles as of 09/15/2011 /, 102,522 — 112,049 Iraqi civilians killed as of 9/16/2011 /, mostly due to suicide bombers, land mines and bombs of various types, http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ and http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf

That argument would probably have gotten more public support (or at least indifference) in the America of 2002, where the most recent major combat operations were Grenada, Panama, the Gulf War, and the bombing of Yugoslavia.

Dan - Ali noted that the passing out of another set of officers to the Nigerian Army came at a period when the country was consolidating on the gains of counter-insurgency operation, adding that «the Nigerian Armed Forces, as you are aware, have been involved in an extensive combat against insurgency and terrorist groups.

Under the plan, Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) will assume full responsibility for combat operations within a year; NATO will withdraw all of its combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014; and the Afghan government will receive some $ 4 billion in security assistance from the US and its NATO allies, in addition to non-combat military support for a decade beyond 2014.

The UPDF assisted US army personnel in «how to conduct field operations and how they operate in tactical and combat environments,» according to Major General David R. Hogg, commander of U.S. Army Africa (USARAF).

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

In response to the directive of Chief of Army Staff, Major General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, Nigerian troops prosecuting the war on terror, have increased the tempo of their offensive as they kill many terrorists during a recent combat operation along Dikwa - Maiduguri Road in Borno StatIn response to the directive of Chief of Army Staff, Major General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, Nigerian troops prosecuting the war on terror, have increased the tempo of their offensive as they kill many terrorists during a recent combat operation along Dikwa - Maiduguri Road in Borno Statin Borno State.

Government today [Monday], February 5, 2018, launched what it calls «Operation Calm Life» to combat criminal activities in the Northern Region.

«The design is to deploy personnel and equipment to showcase the combat efficiency of the Nigerian Army and thereafter conduct operations to totally destroy Boko Haram locations in the Lake Chad Basin».

«The design is to deploy personnel and equipment to showcase the combat efficiency of the NA and thereafter conduct operations to totally destroy Boko Haram locations in the Lake Chad Basin general area,» he added.

«In order to sustain the tempo of the counter insurgency operation in the North East, the present administration had recently procured modern equipment to enhance the combat effectiveness of our armed forceIn order to sustain the tempo of the counter insurgency operation in the North East, the present administration had recently procured modern equipment to enhance the combat effectiveness of our armed forcein the North East, the present administration had recently procured modern equipment to enhance the combat effectiveness of our armed forces.

Several foreign countries particularly African countries had wondered why Nigerian military reputed to be one of the most daring during combat in many theatres of operations around the continent and the world, were being embarrassed by Boko Haram until Buratai assumed the saddle of command.