Sentences with phrase «for civilian life»

Many online sites allow you to input your military experience and translate it into skills suitable for civilian life.

When my father was their age, he had served in a war and been in the military for eight years, retrained for civilian life and was supporting a wife and two children.

I am reminded of the time I left my Navy ship for civilian life and college during the Viet Nam era.

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For 21.2 million U.S. veterans, transitioning into civilian life can present challenges.

Miller claims that every one of the clips shown has been independently verified, but is forced to concede in his report for the Guardian, «I heard nothing but denials that the security forces were shooting, shelling and torturing civilians... we lived in a bubble, seeing nothing of the extreme brutality and killing for which the Syrian regime is so notorious.»

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.

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.

In my final position with the U.S. Army, my daily duties were mostly managerial and I seized the opportunity to prepare for my departure into civilian life.

For many of them, the transition back to civilian life is a difficult one.

Over the weekend students, teachers, parents and a whole array of civilians took to the streets to participate in the March For Our Lives protest.

In addition, Starbucks Veterans Cards will be available for purchase in select stores and on starbucks.com/card with $ 5 from every purchase donated to Transition 360 Alliance to help service members and their families transition to civilian life.

The AFN was founded in 2007 to bring partners who served in the military together to provide guidance for newly hired partners transitioning from military to civilian life and to create a veteran - friendly workforce.

In the 30 - and 60 - second spots, Veterans like Brotherton, a Starbucks barista in Santee, California, and Veteran spouses are paired with civilians, who are real - life co-workers, for conversations about military life.

USO Pathfinder is a free service for active - duty military to help transition into civilian life.

The fact that the passengers and crew of Flight 1549 were terrorized and the plane destroyed, that 11 innocent people are dead in Aurora, that the girl was held for seven days, ra.ped and sod.omized and will be traumatized for the rest of her life, or that a number of innocent civilians were killed by the missile.

This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.

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.

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.

Alice survived the ordeal — the Germans finally let the civilian vessel pass — but the belief that God had saved her life, for a purpose, never left her.

«We need to take away their access and options of being able to do the same again and I think it has to be retaliatory for a number of reasons: there has to be a serious lesson sent out to the Syrians and to their allies in Iran and Russia that you can not attack innocent civilians, kill people, destroy their lives, injure them for long term.»

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.

Leaving the only life that you've known for so long is a very scary thing, and the transition from military life to the civilian world can be tough.

We'll also be raising awareness for the 100 Club Chicago a civilian organization that provides for the families of first responders who have lost their lives in the line - of - duty.

We find the suggestion that this is the real reason for the MPA far more compelling than we do the argument that our return would be detrimental to the island, particularly when 1,500 servicemen and 2,000 civilian workers currently live there.

For certain critics, even one civilian casualty incurred in a campaign designed to save lives will be viewed as too many.

These risks remain, but that the peace efforts have now been internationally recognised may give them new hope for a better life as civilians.

The prospect of inflicting harm on civilians in the context of a campaign aimed at saving lives demonstrates how the conduct of an operation sits uncomfortably — and possibly undermines — the cause for resorting to war.

In these territories, which are distributed across the country, former FARC combatants will gather to lay down their arms and prepare themselves for reintegration into civilian life.

The ceasefire agreement spelled out some details — for example, FARC members can prepare for reintegration into civilian life by using these zones, which will have a one - kilometer wide safety ring.

«Every opportunity is being given for military personnel to retrain either for alternative roles in the armed forces or in civilian life, but the simple fact is we have to tackle the massive deficit we inherited from Labour and the huge black hole in the defence budget,» he explained.

The aim of the review was to look at the policies, legislation, regulations, guidelines and provisions in place for the government to meet its commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant with respect to veterans» transition to civilian life, and -LSB-...]

Schimel said she had no immediate plans for her next step, other than returning to «civilian» life.

The march concluded an all - day celebration of the slain activist hero's life at the National Action Network, where Cuomo accepted a «social - justice award» for his executive order requiring the attorney general to investigate civilian deaths at the hands of cops.

It's «declaration of the founding of the Transitional National Council» lists its goals which include ensuringhr safety of citizens, the restoration of normal civilian life, facilitating the election of a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution to be put to referendum and a transitional government to pave the way for free elections.

«I also strongly urge Israel to do their utmost to reduce tension, avoid civilian casualties and increase the prospects for both sides to live in peace,» he said.

He has also served as a member of the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board and of the advisory board of Democrats for Life.

But the war was considered a major diplomatic success for Mr Cameron, who managed to get the resolution through the UN despite left - over hostility from the Iraq War and implement a policy which is thought to have saved thousands of civilian lives.

That should be the work of the FEDs not the soldiers who put their lives to protect this nation... WTF is wrong with our nation???? Police's not supposed to be Armed force, yet they gave them baracks, Soldiers are not supposed to be around civilians yet there are baracks around civilians, Soldiers are not ment to pay POWER bills, Utilities of a whole, show me one country that does ask their soldiers to pay for power????

If there is one lesson to be learned from this study, one lesson that may even save lives, it is the need for a coordinated plan of action between the Civilian Complaint Review Board and the NYPD,» CCRB chairman Richard Emery said.

We each have a role to play to ensure that the men and women who have served our nation have the opportunity for success and achievement upon their return to civilian life.»

Sophisticated technologies that can be used in civilian life and for making nuclear weapons present governments with a dilemma: how do they help manufacturers to keep their export sales high while ensuring that they do not supply would - be nuclear powers?

In a monochromatic world where scientific advancement allows for optimization of life itself, a ruling class of scientists uses CRISPR technology to produce classes of civilians with singular purposes: farmers resistant to sunlight, doctors with photographic memories, and fearless police officers.

Yet Veralli, a Master Firearms Instructor for the New York City Police Department and an NRA life member, admits that as a civilian he has had very little opportunity to use his gun.

That is really cool because you in a way bring them together closer with civilians playing and kind of make them just forget the worries of life for a little while.

While I've always thought that 2013 is a great time to be alive in the history of the universe, I do wish we lived in a time where space travel was affordable for civilians.

Please do n`t worry about my trouser on my profile (picture) because I am not a US marine, I am a civilian and am into IT I am secure and happy with myself, but Life is meant for 2.

I identified with Upham, and I suspect many honest viewers will agree with me: The war was fought by civilians just like him, whose lives had not prepared them for the reality of battle.

Trevor Howard, most famous for much more civilized turns in films like «Brief Encounter» and «The Third Man,» delivers one of his most dynamic performances as an ex-serviceman who, bored with civilian life, joins a gang of black marketeers for excitement and money.

Thank You for Your Service: Follows a group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq who struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.