Sentences with phrase «combat operations since»
Via The Poughkeepsie Journal Today's Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are returning home from the longest combat operations since Vietnam.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
As always, though, there is a simpler and more powerful explanation of why there has been no similar school shooting in Germany since 2009; or in Canada since 2016; none in the United Kingdom since 1996 — while conversely, more young Americans have died in school shootings in 2018 than in all the nation's combat operations all over the world.
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.
Move, Inc., a leading provider of online real estate services, reports that it is continuing to combat the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which has interrupted its websites» operations since it began mid-day June 17.