Sentences with phrase «of army vehicles»

Consider what our older people would have thought when they saw the convoy of army vehicles rolling in.

Perhaps you work at Ellsworth Air Force Base and oversee a fleet of army vehicles.

In the motor pool he focused on preventative maintenance of Army vehicles and, as a Unit Armorer, he maintained his unit's weapons.

While most of the construction of these 47,000 miles of roadway took place in the late»50s and early»60s, one of its inspirations occurred some 40 years earlier when Eisenhower, then a young soldier, joined a convoy of Army vehicles on...

«Fuel cells have the potential to expand the capabilities of Army vehicles significantly through quiet operation, exportable power and solid torque performance, all advances that drove us to investigate this technology further.»

Not exact matches

Levine and his team came up with an 11 1/2 - inch articulated figure with 21 moving parts, and since the company's employees included many military veterans, it was decided to outfit the toy in the uniforms of the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force, with such accessories as guns, helmets and vehicles.

It was originally the civilian version of the M998 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (better known as the Humvee), the replacement for the army jeep.

BAE recently showed off a prototype of an armed robotic combat vehicle, or ARCV, at the United States Army's Global Force Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama.

A convoy of US Army Rangers riding in armored Stryker combat vehicles was seen crossing the border into Syria last week to support Kurdish military forces in Manbij.

The Army's expedited APS effort is being managed by a coordinated team of Tank Automotive Research, Development & Engineering Center engineers, acquisition professionals, and industry; it is intended to assess current APS state - of - the art by installing and characterizing some existing non-developmental APS systems on Army combat vehicles, Army officials said.

The Army has purchased an emerging technology for Abrams tanks, Bradleys and Strykers designed to give combat vehicles an opportunity identify, track and destroy approaching enemy rocket - propelled grenades in a matter of milliseconds, service officials said.

Army personnel recently traveled from Germany to the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland for testing and training on new variants of the Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle.

They keep all of the Army's vehicles rolling along year - round in Alaska.

The town of Hampton is giving residents and visitors to the town a heads up that they may spot uniformed soldiers with weapons and army vehicles in and around the community this weekend.

It will increase the price of any and all goods that use steel and aluminum — Air Force planes, Navy ships, and Army vehicles — meaning that the Pentagon's budget will buy fewer of them.

HAWESVILLE, Ky. — When Bill Hughes went to fight in Iraq in 2003, members of his Army unit lined their vehicles with scrap metal, sandbags and bulletproof vests to protect themselves from roadside bombs.

The plane, which had a Russian crew, was carrying «two vehicles and weapons» as well as military personnel, a source at the army's headquarters told AFP, also speaking on condition of anonymity.

Fifteen armed men dressed in military fatigues, suspected to be army officers, have stormed the private residence of the main opposition National Democratic Congress» National Organiser, Mr Kofi Adams, and seized all his vehicles in the company of four alleged National Security officers and personnel from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA).

Also, following new security measures put in place on the orders of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin, all vehicles not painted in military colours including those carrying Generals of the Army, Navy and Airforce have been banned from entering the defence Headquarters complex.

It continued that the cover on the alleged misappropriation of the vehicle by the army chief was blown by Adeti's successor, Brig M Whajah, GOC, Southern Command.

In the said reportage, the paper alleged that the COS of the General Headquarters, of the Ghana Armed Forces at Burma Camp, has been indicted for allegedly appropriating a Nissan Hard - body double - cabin vehicle donated to the Southern Command of the Ghana Army by the Bank of Ghana.

«I am proud to stand here today as the representative of the US secretary of defence, Ashton Carter, and commander and the representative of the US Africa command, General David Rodriguez, to present the donation of this 24 Mine - Resistant Armor - Protected (MRAP) vehicles to the Nigerian army,» he stated.

The used vehicles valued at N2.2 billion ($ 11 million), were officially presented to the army in Lagos on Thursday by Patrick Doyle, representative of the US government.

Identifying requirements for production of armoured fighting vehicle in Nigerian Army Central Workshop in Kaduna and enhancing capacity of Nigerian Army personnel to actively participate on the successful implementation of these joint ventures.

Based on that the Nigerian Army acquired over 70 more variants of the Innoson vehicles which were deployed in the North East for Operation LAFIYA DOLE.

He promised to assist the Nigerian Army in its quest for better vehicles for its troops and resuscitation of its Special Vehicle Plant and Workshops.

In his remarks, the Chief of Army Staff, congratulated the company for giant strides it has recorded in the production of various brands of vehicles lately.

The Chief of Army Staff recalled with delight that the Nigerian Army being patriotic and in a bid to encourage local entrepreneurs asked Innoson Motors to supply 3 vehicles early last year which were found to be durable and performing very well as they were employed in combat and proved to be useful, comfortable and convenient in military operations.

He said that the essence of the meeting was to further formalize the business relationship between the Nigerian Army and Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company.

Responding, Doctor Innocent Chukwuma expressed happiness that the Nigerian Army has found his vehicles working perfectly and commended the Chief of Army Staff for his great sense of patriotism.

Dr Innocent Chukwuma further thanked the Chief of Army Staff for the commendation, maintaining that his company would continue to improve and expand its capacity in vehicle manufacturing.

The Nigerian Army on Tuesday formalized a partnership with Nigerian indigenous motor manufacturing company, Innoson Motors Manufacturing Company for modification of some of its equipment, local production of armoured fighting vehicles and other military hardwares.

The specific areas of partnership between the Nigerian Army and the company include immediate supply 100 vehicles, supply of appropriate gears, engines and chassis required for immediate modifications and repairs of armoured fighting vehicles in the North East Theatre of Operations.

For instance, in the protests of 30 — 31 May 2016, more than 5 personnel of the Nigeria Police were killed, while several soldiers were wounded, Nigeria Police vehicles were burnt down same as several others of the Nigerian Army that were vandalized.

The 9.15 - acre property is the site of the former Fort Tilden Army Reserve Center, located at 415 State Road in Breezy Point in the Rockaway Peninsula, and includes a 29,469 square foot building and a 7,036 square foot vehicle storage / repair structure.

President Mihammadu Buhari has directed the Nigerian Army authorities to immediately reinstate Major General Ahmed Muhammed, the erstwhile General Officer Commanding the 7th division of the Army in Maiduguri whose official vehicle was famously fired at by troops protesting the death of their colleagues in -LSB-...]

The research dates back to the spring of 2014, when WPI was named the lead institution on a $ 7.4 million, multi-university award from the U.S. Army that supported the development of new metallurgical methods and new lightweight alloys to help the military build more effective and durable vehicles and systems.

Research in advanced information technology is feeding ideas like Future Combat Systems, the Army's ambitious $ 200 billion program to field a series of manned and unmanned vehicles linked by a common communications network.

I heard of IEDs that the MRAP and the JERRV vehicles — MRAP is Mine Resistant Ambush Protected; it's the successor to the Humvee — what's happening now is, most of the Humvees are being given to the Iraqi army and U.S. forces are traveling in these things called MRAPs; they are much more heavily armored.

In 2013, the two were awarded a $ 1.5 million contract by the US Army to support their research using small - scale models of under - vehicle explosions.

The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name, but always covered by another name, and another Our war legacy to Afghans: # 1bn of military vehicles will be given to national army when British troops pull out.

Outfight the enemy with your own army of foot soldiers, tanks, helicopters, tactical vehicles, and fighter jets.

As directed by my generational contemporary Len Wiseman, Live Free or Die Hard shows at least a superficial understanding of what makes Willis» most fiscally successful films tick: a hissable bad guy (Timothy Olyphant as cyber-terrorist Thomas Gabriel), armies of henchmen (and in this case, a henchwoman), and NYPD cop McClane, reluctantly drawn into bruising fistfights and games of chicken with large vehicles and machinery.

You command a small army of vehicles to move around a map and shoot or mow down their adversaries.

In a unique turn, Max is sidelined in one of the first major action scenes as he's tied up to the front of a vehicle driven by Nux (Nicholas Hoult), one of the members of Joe's army who is using Max for a blood transfusion.

Army of One, unrelated to the 1993 Dolph Lundgren vehicle, is but the latest of these.

Harking back to past Bond scripts and including snippets of plot points from Craig's legacy to the franchise, the screenplay has the defiant covert operative resorting to his infamous tricks of seducing beautiful women (passionate kissing and undressing implies further sexual activity), engaging in car chases with decked out vehicles (in this case a Aston Martin DB10 designed especially for the movie) and fighting a crime empire with an infinitely wealthy, villainous kingpin who commands an army of minions.

There's a highway chase in the UFB in which Quaid and Melina (Jessica Biel), who knows him from his past life and is literally the girl of his dreams, take turns evading an army of police vehicles on the levitating highway.

On July 11, 2017, I purchased a high - end, pre-owned 2014 vehicle from GIA and the experience was quick and smooth (I came to the table pre-approved);... my sales person was retired Army CSM Phillip; Phillip was a professional salesperson with excellent people skills; I also met and spoke with the owner of the business KC; after the GIA staff addressed my concerns about some of the online reviews, I decided to do business with them; I AM GLAD I DID; the vehicle is in excellent condition and the price - point was great; I would definitely do business again and / or recommend GIA to a friend or family member;

It was this never - ending stream of adventures and feats that led one staff member to call our Honda «the Swiss Army Knife of vehicles» and another to declare that «the Odyssey comes very close to being the one vehicle that can do it all.»