Sentences with phrase «lack of military experience»

Not only is the new defence secretary known by some Tory critics as Private Pike thanks to his lack of military experience, he has also recently acquired a second nickname — Poker — following colourful revelations about his time as a fireplace salesman in Yorkshire.

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This could be related to stats about the lack of career progression for military spouses, which shows that 63 % have not experienced a work promotion since marrying their service member.

«As the mayor mentioned, I have over 900 very dedicated officers in this department, many of whom do double duty, and they serve as active duty members of the U.S. Military in combat, something the senator has never seen,» he said, referring to Cruz's lack of experience in the U.S. Armed Forces.

Military service has imbued many of these veterans with valuable practical and technical skills and with qualities of focus, discipline, motivation, and maturity often lacking in students with less worldly experience.

Despite his father's naval experience, according to Christian Lowe, the managing editor of Military.com (DefenseTech's parent site), this may seem odd, given Buff's own lack of a military career, but his research and insight make up for it.

Military service has imbued many veterans with valuable practical and technical skills and with qualities of focus, discipline, motivation, and maturity often lacking in students with less worldly experience

Finally, intelligence underestimated Hamas's military ability demonstrated by the Israeli military's use on several occasions of old M113 personnel carriers with inferior armour reinforced, at times a lack of body armour and radio communications, and the deployment of some troops that had no combat experience.

Jack's experience was that there was a degree of panic within the ranks and the civilian population which he attributed to the confusion following the surprise attacks, the misunderstandings of orders issued to some of the military personnel (i.e.; to leave the town and form up in the bush down the track) and the lack of visible law and order.

For many of these veterans, companion animals provide the routine and discipline that they experienced in the military, but find lacking in their post-service lives.

The graduates lacking professional experience can dwell on the course work they've completed and include more information about personal qualities as well as people who due to some circumstances (military service) have been out of the workforce.

Here's how she finally took on her shift, military - style, and overcame her lack of experience to break into a field she's truly inspired by.