Sentences with phrase «of naval operations»

«Europe will be focused on its own borders,» retired Admiral Donald L. Pilling, vice chief of naval operations, said in the report.

The members who wrote the article are: Retired Army Gen. James J. Lindsay, the first commander of U.S. Special Operations Command; Retired Adm. Jerome Johnson, vice chief of naval operations; Retired Lt. Gen. E.G. «Buck» Shuler Jr., commander of the Strategic Air Command's 8th Air Force; and Retired Gen. Joseph J. Went, an assistant commandant of the Marine Corps.

Not exact matches

Richardson, the chief of US naval operations, told the House Appropriations subcommittee in March that Russia's increasing interest in undersea operations was «exactly why our investments [in European operations] are focused on the antisubmarine - warfare problem, both enhancing our undersea sensors and then... infrastructure for the antisubmarine aircraft, the P - 8.»

The naval operation is part of a wider EU blueprint launched by European Commission chief Jean - Claude Juncker last week.

«The most troubling implication for Australian interests is that a future naval or air base in Vanuatu would give China a foothold for operations to coerce Australia, outflank the US and its base on US territory at Guam, and collect intelligence in a regional security crisis,» Rory Medcalf, the head of the National Security College at the Australian National University, wrote in a Lowy Institute report.

When plans for a major naval operation had been approved by the proper agencies, to what extent did the Naval Minister exercise control over the manner of conduct of that operation?

We should ultimately aim at closing all our imperialist enclaves, but in order to avoid isolationism and maintain a capacity to assist the United Nations in global peacekeeping operations, we should, for the time being, probably retain some 37 of them, mostly naval and air bases.

Resolution 2240 was intended to authorise «Operation Sophia», phase two of a three - phase joint security and defence naval operation of EUNAVFOperation Sophia», phase two of a three - phase joint security and defence naval operation of EUNAVFoperation of EUNAVFOR - Med.

The Merchant Navy officers are seconded from their parent companies and organisations at no cost to the naval operation, and provide a significant and invaluable industry contribution to the success of the counter piracy operation.

He noted that exercises are still being undertaken as part of the 2015 deal like the operation Obangame, a naval collaboration with Gulf of Guinea and West African nations to counter sea - based illicit activity.

April 2008 — Report from the International Workshop on Shipping Noise and Marine Mammals held in Hamburg, Germany A diverse group of stakeholders from around the world was convened with expertise in the areas of underwater acoustics, naval architecture, marine engineering, ship building, marine mammal bioacoustics, marine operations, and noise control, as well as in international maritime and environmental law and policy.

For the previous two years San Miguel Island had been closed to the public by the U.S. Navy for the purpose of clearing the island of anything unsafe left over from naval operations during WWII.

According to an investigation into a suspected link between naval operations and cetacean strandings (two weeks ago we wrote about 80 + whales and dolphins that beached themselves in Australia), very loud blasts of sonar can cause a dolphin to temporarily lose its hearing.

Damien Mander is a former naval special operations sniper for the Australian Defense Force who, after 12 tours of duty in Iraq, ended up in Africa witnessing the horrors of poaching and decided to using his very special skillset to do something about it.

If the services are indeed to use alternative fuels in tactical weapon systems, these fuels must be able to substitute for one or more of the three petroleum - based distillate fuels that currently support the majority of military operations: the two military jet fuels, JP - 8 and JP - 5 («JP» stands for «jet propellant»), and naval distillate (F - 76).

These UN Security Council resolutions provide the legal basis for the EU naval operation mandated with the task of disrupting the business model of migrant smugglers and human traffickers in the Southern Central Mediterranean: EU NAVFOR MED Operatiooperation mandated with the task of disrupting the business model of migrant smugglers and human traffickers in the Southern Central Mediterranean: EU NAVFOR MED OperationOperation Sophia.

Participation in naval, military or air force operations whether in the form of military exercises or war games or actual engagement with the enemy with foreign or domestic

Active military, naval, air force police or similar, or invasion, act of foreign enemies, hostilities or was like operations (whether was be declared or not), War, Mutiny, military rising, insurrection, rebellion, military or usurped power or any act of terrorism or violence.

Participating in any riot, strike or civil commotion, active military, naval, airforce, police or similar service, or War, invasion, act of foreign enemies, hostilities or war like operations (whether war be declared or not), civil war, mutiny, military rising, insurrection, rebellion, military or usurped power or any act of terrorism or violence.

Oversaw operations of major DOD naval telecommunications center, information processing, and analysis functions.