Sentences with phrase «in special forces»

The majority of Chuck's Army career was spent in Special Forces.

Not giving in to terrorism, USA retaliates by calling in the special forces, led by Lt. Col. Robert Burns, to put a stop to the attack and recapture the space station.

Authentic Weapons - In Special Forces: Team X equip your Operator with real world weapons.

Yup, you can taunt enemies in Special Forces: Team X. Doing so normally results in you getting your smug face shot.

Usually weapons like these should be highly prized, with intense firefights springing up around them as both sides attempt to claim them, but in Special Forces nobody is really that bothered about getting their hands on them, because they're simply not powerful or useful enough to warrant the effort.

«But that Bob Mayer feller, he was in Special Forces, so he's got ta be good.

If I'd looked at the numbers 25 years ago, I'd have stayed in the Special Forces.

He has been awarded honorary membership in the Special Forces Association, the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association, the Marine Raiders Association, and the U.S. Army Otter & Caribou Association.

Authentic Weapons — In Special Forces: Team X equip your Operator with real world weapons.

And that's not just so we can believe in the highly improbable character played by Johnson — Davis Okoye, a musclebound San Diego primatologist who has built up a sign - language - based relationship with an albino gorilla called George, and who just happens to have a background in the Special Forces.

Snowden getting sidelined in Special Forces training by frail health (he's also prone to epileptic seizures).

The film keeps returning to those scenes in Hong Kong, but most of it consists of flashbacks that begin in 2004, when the 20 - year - old Snowden tried to enlist in Special Forces but was sidelined by an injury.

The government responds by sending in Special Forces, but loses contact as an eerie signal interrupts radio communications.

The plot is unbelievably messy, a hodgepodge of code words and IRA allegiances and hidden pasts in the Special Forces that becomes difficult to keep straight.

Top - billed in a cast short on star power but long on believability, Clooney plays Thomas Devoe, a committed but rule - bending Lieutenant Colonel in the Special Forces branch of the Marine Corps first seen being grilled by a Senate panel for sending a Ford Explorer to the daughter of an enemy contact.

All the special forces, they radio in the special forces are the cytotoxic or the natural killer kind of that cytotoxic first branch of the immune system, the TH1.

The majority of Chuck's Army career was spent in Special Forces.

This is a guy who wishes he was in the special forces doing military recon, searching through caves for Osama Bin Ladin.

Australia lifts all restrictions on the roles that women can carry out in its armed forces, including serving in special forces and front - line combat units.

The origins of the Zetas are in the special forces of the Mexican Army that were trained in the counterinsurgency against the Zapatistas [leftist militant group] in southern Mexico.

Not exact matches

«Overall, some folks will really benefit from AMT repeal, but we can't look at taxes in a vacuum,» said LaBrecque, also head of the Michigan Association of CPAs» special task force on tax changes, which ran simulations on more than 900 tax returns to see the impact of the proposed Trump tax changes.

For example, drone strikes are similar to Special Forces in their direct targeting ability in remote locations, but are less likely to create domestic opposition to the use of force because they don't put U.S. lives directly at risk.

His BFF with George, an albino gorilla who he rescued years earlier when he worked in an anti-poaching special forces unit and now lives in a conservatory.

In 2003, Gen. Stanley McChrystal took command of the United States» Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), an association of elite forces including the Navy SEALS, Army Rangers, and Delta Force.

For the study, the researchers split socially anxious volunteers into three groups — one was asked to perform random acts of kindness, one was told to follow the usual course of exposure therapy and force themselves to participate in more social situations, and another was a control group who did nothing special.

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or Sigar, recently issued a damning report that found the task force, which has since been disbanded, spent $ 43 million to build a gas station in Afghanistan when the project should have cost something in the neighborhood of $ 500,000.

Last fall, the MDA announced it would cut back the telethon to a six - hour prime time special in 2011, leading to speculation that Lewis, who has been forced to cut back his airtime considerably in recent years due to mounting heath issues, was on his way out.

Here's what we do know about the state of Afghan security forces: A September report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction indicated that ANDSF is nowhere near its 352,000 target personnel level: Afghan National Army force strength, in particular, fell from 185,817 in September 2013 to 168,327 in November 2016, thanks to increasing attrition rates and fluctuating readiness.

Given the additional political scrutiny on the Pentagon in the aftermath of the Oct. 4 ambush in Niger that killed four Army Special Forces personnel, classifying vital metrics of progress in our 16 - year - old Afghanistan campaign doesn't cast the US military in the best light.

Capt. Kathleen Atanasoff, a spokeswoman for AFCENT, cautioned that the numbers released by the command — which includes assets and actions under the Combined Forces Air Component Commander, or CFACC — don't reflect the «entirety of kinetic activity in OIR,» such as assets belonging to coalition partners or other U.S. components, like the Combined Joint Land Component Commander and Special Operations Joint Task Force.

France has led airstrikes on Syria as part of the coalition and is believed to have special forces in Syria.

Sri Lanka's Special Task Force soldiers walk past a damaged houses after a clash between two communities in Digana central district of Kandy, Sri Lanka March 8, 2018.

The MOAB's deployment comes just a few days after a US Special Forces operator was killed in the same region of the country during operations against ISIS.

An investigation by Buzzfeed's Aram Roston reveals that Purple Shovel LLC — founded in 2010 by former counterintelligence officer Benjamin Worrell — was paid $ 50 million by the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in December to provide the US - trained New Syrian Force with foreign weapons and ammunition.

Perhaps most shockingly, footage emerged of Free Syrian Army rebels (FSA), the group with arguably the closest ties to Washington, ordering US Special Forces out of the town of Al - Rai in northern Syria, screaming in the process that «Christians and Americans have no place among us.»

The founders of the Zetas were defectors from the Mexican Army's Airborne Special Forces Group (Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales - GAFES), a US - trained unit considered one of the most elite in the region.

GC: The Northeast Cartel has control over operations in the state of Coahuila because the Treviño brothers had a very special role in activities there because of the protection they had from security forces.

Meanwhile, US special operations forces, who are said to be taking a training and advisory role with Iraqi and Kurdish forces, were quietly given more latitude to call in precision airstrikes and artillery.

The proposed increase in conventional forces would follow similar deployments in recent weeks that have supplemented special operations forces, of which roughly 500 have been on the ground for some time.

The recipient of several Bronze Stars and Service Medals (among other awards), Dunbar had to leave his UCLA EMBA program for a time so he could lead special forces operations inside Afghanistan, which included (in Dunbar's words) «11 different battalions, from 7 different countries, 13 different governmental and non-governmental agencies with over 6,000 personnel with no positional authority over the networked organization.»

Among the new measures pushed by branch officials, according to the New York Times: a mandate that Air Force Office of Special Investigations personnel «confirm that reportable cases have been entered in the federal database by seeing either a printout or a screenshot from the database.»

The uniform was unsatisfactory, however, and Special Forces quickly adopted the tiger stripe camouflage used by rangers in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, as seen on this sergeant first class in February 1968.

If you make it through training — and that's a big if, since only a few out of every beginning class of 200 or so candidates survives to the end — your fellow SEALs know you're coming in with an extreme level of training, toughness and willingness to be a part of the most feared and elite special operations fighting force in existence.

Relations between Pakistan and the United States have endured strain during the 16 - year war in Afghanistan, especially after Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. special forces inside Pakistan in 2011.

To understand why leaders put on these superficial shields and how to breakthrough them, I recently sat down with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan and of the Joint Special Operations Command.

Erickson has been in the middle of many deadly attacks during his time serving in the Army Special Forces and has faced violent criminals even while retired here in the States.

Example: In September 1969, Melvin Morris was a special forces sergeant serving in Vietnam, and he led a mission across enemy lines to rescue a fellow U.S. soldieIn September 1969, Melvin Morris was a special forces sergeant serving in Vietnam, and he led a mission across enemy lines to rescue a fellow U.S. soldiein Vietnam, and he led a mission across enemy lines to rescue a fellow U.S. soldier.

The last thing they thought is that we would drop commandos, CIA and Special Forces, behind their lines, and we would assume the role of insurgents, and forge these deep alliances with these Afghan tribal leaders, these non-state actors, and in the matter of 90 days subvert and overthrow the Taliban regime and kill large numbers of al Qaeda.»

The SDF has conquered swathes of territory from ISIS in northeastern Syria with support from US airstrikes and special forces, and according to the Pentagon, is leading the fight against the remnants of the Islamist group in the country.

Now, the feds are asking a federal judge in California to force Apple to write special software that will override those encryption features in order to peer into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.