Sentences with phrase «combat troops»

Now that it is «normal» for US combat troops to chase global warming boogymen through the artic, it will soon be «normal» for them to start chasing commenters on Legalinsurrection.com.

No, you'll still need to pack out your R&D department to get the best gadgets and weapons, you'll still need medical staff to heal the combat troops who've been injured on duty, and you'll still need good people on support because otherwise you can't call in air support.

A wealth of combat troops.

President Barack Obama stated last week that combat troops in Iraq would all by pulled out by the end of December, which will surely bring a huge reduction in Department of Defense spending and could bolster the economy.

If the U.S. withdraws its combat troops from Afghanistan by late 2014 as planned, it will mark the end of a 13 - year...

After that, it was a downhill ride to the racism of the combat troops towards the Vietnamese people.

These qualities recently attracted the interest of the U.S. Army, which is researching wool's potential in clothing designed to protect combat troops from explosive blasts.

In this engaging, wide - ranging investigation, food writer Salcedo reveals how yesterday's experiments in feeding combat troops have evolved into the convenience foods likely sitting on your pantry shelves.

As the last of our so - called combat troops leave Iraq — leaving behind a mere 50,000 other troops and who knows how many Haliburton mercerancies — is might be good for a moment to focus on Who did it?

In this case, both generals and combat troops have voiced opposition to repealing DADT, and the governor values their perspective.

In five years time, our combat troops will have left Afghanistan.

This is why the logic of an extended air campaign is mission creep and western boots on the ground — whatever the Prime Minister may say now about keeping British combat troops out of the way — are a real possibility.

Britain will seek to pull its combat troops out of Afghanistan within five years, its ambassador in Kabul has said.

So, are you fooling Americans when you say, we're not putting American combat troops back into Syria or Iraq?

about keeping British combat troops out of the fight.»

«But what I have said is people in Britain should understand we're not going to be there in five years time, in 2015 with combat troops or large numbers, because I think it's important to give people an end date by which we won't be continuing in that way.»

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.

Most of them had lost earlier, and they looked as if they had stepped out of one of those photographs of shocked and fatigued Vietnam combat troops, their heads drooping, eyes vacant.

Finally, in addition to stressing U.S. «combat troops» would not be deployed on the ground in Syria and Iraq, Obama emphasized his plan called for efforts to back local forces in those countries.

Next on the list was Afghanistan where, despite having pulled out the vast majority of combat troops years ago, the U.S. saw the need to drop 1,337 bombs.

Barack Obama promised that American combat troops would be removed from Iraq within 16 months of taking office.

Not exact matches

According to the study, before being sent to Guantanamo, 70 percent of troops surveyed «perceived the assignment as less stressful than a combat deployment.»

This study, combined with two internal military reports on the mental health of troops and interviews with two former Guantanamo guards, show that the invisible wounds of war largely associated with combat - related deployments also affected troops who worked at the detention facility.

«We've done so while bringing more than 140,000 American troops home from Iraq, and drawing down our forces in Afghanistan, where our combat mission will end later this year.

After years of combat, some 23,000 troops serving in Afghanistan were pulled out in 2012, with plans to withdraw the rest by 2014.

Guard troops are to be focused on combatting transnational criminal gangs, human traffickers, and illegal firearm and drug smugglers.

But it was enough for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to renew a longstanding request that the United States send troops to help the kingdom combat the Houthi threat.

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.

OTTAWA — The country's new defence minister left the door open Wednesday for Canadian troops to join the U.S. in training Ukrainian forces and for an extension of the combat mission against the Islamic State.

The White House said the troops would number «fewer than 50» and insisted that they would only train and advise the local forces, not play a direct combat role against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.

3) The 24/7 global 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.

3) The 24/7 Sunni - Shiite centuries - old blood feud currently being carried out in Iraq, US troops killed in action, and 928 in non combat roles.

And it's not like our troops are actively engaging in combat at the moment.

- 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

- 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

When the flavor was introduced in 2009, Whitey's sent the ice cream to the 72nd combat battalion at Fort Bliss, Texas, and sponsored a free ice cream social there for 3,000 troops.

Our primary mission [the A-10] is close air support, protecting troops who are in close combat with enemy forces on the ground,» Levy explains.

Mr Cameron and Mr Obama are preparing for an upcoming Nato summit in Chicago in which they will seek to end their troops» combat role in Afghanistan by the start of 2014.

The US armed forces, apart from infantry under combat conditions, had the luxury of full rations, while Japanese troops were often forced to live off the land.

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.

Pence, who flew to the military facility with his wife, second lady Karen Pence, aboard a C - 17 military jumbo jet, praised the troops» service in helping combat Islamic State fighters in nearby Syria.

But it bears repeating that this new law could help more than troops returning from combat — in addition to aiding sexual assault survivors, medical marijuana could help treat some New Yorkers who developed PTSD after experiencing 9/11.

By 1987, Indian and Pakistani troops were engaged in active combat in a wasteland where «even grass does not grow,» as former Pakistani military ruler General Ziaul Haq famously remarked about Siachen.

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 State.

Banditry: Troops kills scores, arrest 4 at Falgore forest Troops from 3rd motorized brigade of Nigerian Army have decimated criminality at Falgore forest following a combat operation that led to the death of scores of bandits, while 4 were arrested.

The Force Commander, «Operation Whirl Stroke», the Special Joint Security Outfit set up to end herdsmen / militia killings in the North Central States, Major General Mutiu Yekini, said on Friday that troops deployed to the four troubled states of the North Central Zone are combat ready to put an end...

Published yesterday, the long - awaited study called for US troops to switch from a combat role to that of trainers of Iraqi forces by early 2008.

It says the UK government will not deploy troops in «ground combat operations».

«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 causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's 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.»

Rattled by the slaughter in Paris, 60 percent of young Americans support sending U.S. ground troops to combat ISIS, a 12 percentage - point increase after the Nov. 13 attacks that killed 130, according to a new poll of 18 - to 29 - year - olds.