Sentences with phrase «oldest military combat»

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The Royal Canadian Navy (the «Royal» was restored to the naval and air elements of the Canadian forces this year, 45 years after the Canadian military ditched many of its historical symbolic associations with the Crown) has just 8,500 personnel and about 20 combat vessels, yet is tasked to exercise sovereignty over three coastlines and is facing major procurement challenges with regard to replacement of its 40 year old supply ships, plus new combat vessels.

The Bureau of National Investigations on Sunday arrested the three South Africans, Major Ahmed Shaik Hazis, 54, (Rtd), WO / Denver Dwayhe Naidu, 39, (Rtd) and 45 - year - old Captain Mlungiseleli Jokani (Rtd) were arrested at the El - Capitano Hotel, at Agona Duakwa in the Central Region, while training fifteen youth of the NPP in various military drills, including unarmed combat, weapon handling, VIP protection techniques and rapid response maneuvers.

He also received a Purple Heart Medal, the oldest military award given to members of the US military, for wounds suffered in combat.

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.

In Multiplayer, battle it out in Hotel, on the roof of a Cuban luxury hotel and casino against the vivid backdrop of old Havana; Convoy delivers intense, close - quarters combat at the scene of an ambushed US military convoy; Zoo takes you on a wild ride in an abandoned Soviet Russian Zoo, with danger at every turn; Stockpile pits players in a remote Russian farm town housing secret WMD facilities.