Sentences with phrase «in combat zones in»

The Seabees also built quarters for the Marines serving in combat zones in Iraq.

According to a June 2015 New York Times article, a 2013 study conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense revealed that drone pilots suffered from the same instance of job - related problems (such as depression and PTSD) as pilots who were deployed in combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I'm a pretty blessed individual who has spent time in combat zones in the middle east & I try not to take the simple things for granted.

Not exact matches

The ranking contains cities with populations of more than 300,000 and does not count deaths in combat zones or cities with unavailable data, so some dangerous cities don't appear on the list

«Others have deployed to combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.»

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.

«That's how they do business, and so if we're going to go in there, we need to go in with very clear rules of engagement if we're going to get Bashar al - Assad out of there,» warned West, who had been posted in several combat zones.

I served a full career in the U.S. Army, being deployed four times into combat zones.

It's not even clear that wealth itself is an aspirational goal anymore — at least not one that anyone will admit to out loud (especially in the combat zone of Toronto's emerging class war).

Although the black beret had been authorized for wear with field uniforms as well as service uniforms in 2001, it was further approved for use in a combat zone with the introduction of the ACU.

While fighting with his unit in the streets of Fallujah, one of Iraq's deadliest combat zones, he was caught in the blast of a rocket - propelled grenade.

The first operational cruise of Super Hornet, F / A -18 E, was with VFA - 115 onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) on July 24, 2002, and saw initial combat action on Nov. 6, 2002, when they participated in a strike on hostile targets in the «no - fly» zone in Iraq.

For in spite of its prima facie attraction, and even if there is such a «primal» experience, that experience would not be accessible in any philosophically helpful way, could not be exploited without reliance upon the very analyses and arguments whose lack of immediacy and authority the appeal is seeking to escape, could not (even for oneself) sustain translation into the discursive and dialectical combat zone of philosophy, and could not by itself alone provide a nonarbitrary basis for determining what in it is essential to experience merely as such.

I hear what you are saying, but most times it is the clergy who are the only on - site counceling that is offered in combat zones.

«As bad as it is, people understand when a soldier is killed in combat in a war zone like Iraq or Afghanistan,» Beebe said outside the church.

But as for me and mine, they «the liberals» want me to live in a combat zone where innocent little killers and rapist steal and murder with impunity.

But we do undertake to prepare our relief teams to be functional in combat zones, which entails an understanding of how combat happens and how to move in those situations.

The unique location presents assorted logistical challenges, of which FRR combats by operating on a schedule based as if it was in the Eastern time zone.

Governor Cuomo has directed the flags on all State buildings to be lowered to half - staff in honor of and tribute to our State's service members who are killed in action or die in a combat zone.

The alternative exemption provides a property tax exemption of 15 % of assessed value to veterans who served during wartime and an additional 10 % to those who served in a combat zone.

Quite rightly he praised the medics and the medical support teams that risked their lives to helicopter in and out of the combat zone.

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...

Governor Cuomo has directed that the flags on all state buildings be lowered to half - staff in honor of, and in tribute to, our state's service members who are killed in action or die in a combat zone.

Governor Paterson has directed the flags on all State buildings to be lowered to half - staff in honor and tribute to our State's service members who are killed in action or die in a combat zone.

Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, A two - star general from the Capital Region, became the highest - ranking American military officer to be killed in a combat zone since the Vietnam War on Tuesday when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier opened fire on U.S. and coalition leaders touring a military academy in Kabul.

I was wondering what the governor New York was doing in a combat zone 8,000 miles away until I saw the hastily - put - together campaign ads extolling his support of veterans.

The most recent version of the legislation, called the Montgomery GI Bill, provides a fixed monthly stipend based on length of service, deployment in a combat zone, and whether the service member was in the regular ranks or the reserves.

For students who started classes before they were called up for active duty, time spent in a combat zone, even if not under direct fire, disrupted academic progress.

This time, the soldier profiles displayed various levels of bravery, either in combat or by helping in a natural disaster zone.

Again, heroism in combat increased women's levels of sexual attraction towards male soldiers, but heroism in a disaster zone had no impact.

In combat zones like Afghanistan and Mali, on humanitarian missions in places like Haiti and the Philippines, and on peacekeeping missions in Rwanda or Kosovo, the challenges are accentuated with each new case, telescoped in a short period of time «This isn't M * A * S * H,» said Williams - JoneIn combat zones like Afghanistan and Mali, on humanitarian missions in places like Haiti and the Philippines, and on peacekeeping missions in Rwanda or Kosovo, the challenges are accentuated with each new case, telescoped in a short period of time «This isn't M * A * S * H,» said Williams - Jonein places like Haiti and the Philippines, and on peacekeeping missions in Rwanda or Kosovo, the challenges are accentuated with each new case, telescoped in a short period of time «This isn't M * A * S * H,» said Williams - Jonein Rwanda or Kosovo, the challenges are accentuated with each new case, telescoped in a short period of time «This isn't M * A * S * H,» said Williams - Jonein a short period of time «This isn't M * A * S * H,» said Williams - Jones.

The distance detection method — called stand - off bomb detection — improves safety, particularly for soldiers in combat zones.

While a 2011 Pew Research Center report revealed that a majority of Americans are apathetic or disapproving of the post-9 / 11 wars the military fought or is fighting, at the same time, Americans simultaneously feel «pride, gratitude, and confidence» towards the more than 2.6 million troops who have served in combat zones since 9/11.

«We've been waiting for this,» says Donald Jenkins, trauma director at Saint Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn., and a 24 - year Air Force veteran who has spent more than 700 days in combat zones, including in Afghanistan and Iraq.

But «it's much harder to conduct a field trial in a combat zone».

During her nearly four decades of service, she supported the nation's operators across the globe in multiple combat zones.

Despite the environmental stress that comes with being in a combat zone, I was able to start my day energized, focused, and feeling great, with a full reservoir of willpower to spend on the decisions and actions I needed to survive and accomplish my mission as a Navy SEAL leader during wartime.

What happened is, let's say you spend a year in a combat zone or even six months, every day your sympathetic nervous system is just getting bombarded.

Initially I thought they were a little bit outside my comfort zone style wise and I already had the combat boots from Day 5 in hand but I couldn't pass up the deal.

Combat zone dramedy «War Dogs,» starring Bradley Cooper, Jonah Hill and Miles Teller, will probably make respectable box office bank when it lands in theaters Aug. 19.

There's also a straightforward arcade mode called Battle Zone, a Tutorial mode that introduces you to the basics of combat, and a Training mode in which you can set a variety of options to determine your opponent's behavior and then practice your stuff.

Ace Combat games are beautiful looking games and its nice to take in the details of the engagement zones (in this case, a large ocean occupied by numerous islands).

If adopted, the legislation would allow (1) using military force, even if Japan is not attacked, if another nation is attacked and the administration deems this situation a threat to Japan's survival; (2) sending SDF units anywhere in the world where the U.S. or other militaries are waging war and having them provide support in close proximity to combat zones, and (3) deploying the SDF alongside U.S. and other allied forces and authorizing them to fire their weapons ostensibly in defense of their military and other supplies.

The softened America at its nadir - with undemanding schools, unpunished crime, rampant welfare, a feckless army under a timid national policy in Vietnam - is the setting for Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet of 1970 and Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone of 1973.

Related Reading: Fiction: Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien; Fields of Fire by James Webb; Meditations in Green by Stephen Wright; In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason; The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien; The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh; Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson Nonfiction: If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien; Dispatches by Michael Herr; A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo; In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff Reading group guide by Ed Conklin Green by Stephen Wright; In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason; The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien; The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh; Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson Nonfiction: If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien; Dispatches by Michael Herr; A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo; In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff Reading group guide by Ed ConklIn Country by Bobbie Ann Mason; The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien; The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh; Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson Nonfiction: If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien; Dispatches by Michael Herr; A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo; In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff Reading group guide by Ed Conklin a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien; Dispatches by Michael Herr; A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo; In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff Reading group guide by Ed ConklIn Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff Reading group guide by Ed Conklin

New gadget is designed for extreme environments also soldiers in the battlefield or combat - zone.

We showcase high quality creative writing and art that explores the impact of the military and military service in spaces beyond the combat zone.

While serving in a combat zone, certain combat pay is not taxable.

If you are stationed in a combat zone for at least one day out of a month, not only should you receive a nontaxable combat pay allowance for that month, but the entire month's regular salary may be excluded from your taxable income.

Unless you received payment for service in a combat zone, include these items in your reported gross income: