Sentences with phrase «years of military life»

I have wonderful recipes from so many people that I have met in the last 5 years of military life, including one written in German!

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Trump's positive outlook on relations with Kim Jong Un is a marked departure from social media taunts in November of last year, in which he called Kim «Little Rocket Man» and noted that his people and military «put up with living in such horrible conditions.»

Until this year, all military members could potentially receive a guaranteed pension of at least 50 percent of their base pay for life.

With Starbucks's growth and more than 1 million active duty members of the U.S. military transitioning to civilian life in the coming years, Starbucks sees the commitment as a strategic form of outreach to the military community.

We found some absolutely stunning photos taken by U.S. Army staff over this year that captured close - ups of military missions, trainings and the life of the American soldier.

The current military retirement system provides a generous pension — starting at 50 % of your base pay every year for life if you stay in the service for 20 years, or up to 75 % if you remain for 30 years.

It is my right, as an American Citizen, after devoting many years of my life defending OUR country in the military, to NOT believe in god.

The «right to question», the «right to research», and the «right to change / convert» — these are some of the rights I was willing to defend with my life during my military years.

He spent the next four pivotal years of his life working alongside Americans in combat situations, learning U.S. military culture and ethics.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

I joined the military after 4 years of marriage and our lives got better and marriage was a lot better.

For five hundred years we have lived, through all the cultural triumphs and glories of mankind, in an age of the increasing evolution of the Mystery of Iniquity - the military rebellion, so to speak, against the Lordship of Christ.

This self proclaimed prophet organized around 65 military campaigns in the last 10 years of his life and personally led 27 of them.

I do not need the government or media to tell me how to live my life, I spent over ten years in the active military I joined when it was an honor to serve and as soldiers we did not have to follow bureaucratic system of rules that are in place now we had something the liberals will never have honor and morality.

Rachel lived across the hall from me freshman year, and we bonded over shared histories of growing up on military bases and a love for reading.

As far as life - threatening experiences... can YOU top 21 years of military service like I did?

Born and raised to American parents living in Israel, Nessia Flugger made her way to the US after two years of military service and multiple backpacking trips around the world.

Kym is a 27 - year - old God - loving SAHM to a two - year - old boy, a patriotic military wife, and a doula in training living deep in the heart of Texas.

What is your favourite book?A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell, a sequence of 12 novels that look at political, military and cultural life over a 50 - year period in the 20th century through the eyes of the narrator, Nick Jenkins.

What's shocking is how much our political culture has changed in just 60 years — the producers of this film lived in a country that had just seen REAL despotism in the form of Nazi Germany and a military - ruled Japan (note the brownshirt - style uniforms, and also the lack of any of any depiction of their Soviet equivalents), and they pull few punches about what leads a society away from freedom.

Tammy Sun, a spokeswoman for attorney Sean Coffey, a former prosecutor who lives in Westchester and is also running for the Democratic nomination, did not comment on Rice, but said of Coffey's record - voting 15 out of 26 years - several were military absentee ballots which may have gone uncounted.

He'd already lost 13 years of his life to forced military service and faced the threat of a regime which he says kidnapped his father turning on him.

The SAMSHA grant, totaling $ 971,736 over a three - year period, will also support personnel, training and other needs related to the development of a peer mentor initiative to help military veterans enrolled in the County's drug treatment court programs re-adjust to civilian life and get back on track, as well as efforts to increase participation rates in court - mandated treatment programs among justice - involved veterans.

Nambu arrived at the University of Tokyo as a research assistant and lived for three years in a laboratory, sleeping on a straw mattress spread over his desk (and always dressed in military uniform for lack of other clothes).

According to a new study in JAMA Neurology, U.S. military service members who endured a mild concussion after blast injury while deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan may continue to experience mental health symptoms as well as decreases in quality of life for at least five years after their injury.

They've discovered a secret «green drink», used by older members of the U.S. Military, to help restore the youthful energy, unlimited stamina and pain - free life they remember from 30 years ago.

living one day at a time, growing up playing sport most of my life so am always going out playing football and basketball pass time through the week, am in the military (Marines) going on 4 years now and like it a lot, love to have a good time and chill with friends but spend most of time at the...

strongly believe in social justice, very easy to get along with, just relocated to aurora from dekalb, il, 7 year military veteran, seeking to finish completion of a bachelors degree in business recently shared my life and devotion with a beautiful, meek, spirit - filled woman for past 18 years;...

I'm single mom I have a son 11 years of age, I'm military personnel, I need some one to share my life with and I am looking for a man that will like to share life with me I have a lot in my heart but I will like to stop here.

With more than 400 medal of honor recipients dating back to the civil war, Hispanic Americans - past and present - have Military life is captured a round up of the best US Army pictures of the year 2017

Sheen's next major success was also a comedy, the 1991 military - film satire Hot Shots, and while box - office blockbusters tended to elude him, Sheen worked steadily over the next several years, and racked up a respectable number of box - office successes.By this time, Sheen had developed a reputation as a hard - living star who spoke his mind regardless of the consequences, but his fun - loving image began to take on a darker hue in the mid -»90s.

Pacific Rim Uprising Rated PG - 13 for sequences of sci - fi violence and action, and some language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 46 % In Theaters Years after the events of the first film, John Boyega (Finn from Star Wars) is a promising young Jaeger pilot who has abandoned his military career to explore a life of crime.

Murphy is a wide - eyed 18 - year - old from a military family who sees joining the Army as an early pit - stop on his eventual career path — something he does out of duty, but that will ultimately be a significant footnote in his life's story.

In 1940s Berlin, eight - year - old Bruno (Asa Butterfield) enjoys a simple life full of playtime with his chums until he is informed that his military father (David Thewlis) has received a promotion requiring the family to move to the country.

Well - intentioned but outraged in only a general sort of way, The Whistleblower tells the story of how the United Nations, the United States State Department, and a private military company (The name of the real - life counterpart has been changed in this telling) worked in tandem with different motivations (survival, to avoid blowback, and to maintain a profitable contract) in an attempt to hush up a sex trafficking scandal in Bosnia - Herzegovina in the years after the Bosnian War.

Rather, the characters are altogether different, with Judd playing a high - powered attorney whose life unravels when her husband is arrested and revealed to have hidden his true identity to her for years, and what's worse, is facing the death penalty in a military court for his alleged role in the murder of several innocent El Salvadorians.

In recent years, she has received numerous awards which includes; 2003 NAACP Service Award; 2003 Military Order of the Purple Heart Distinguished Service Award, Stockton's Black Faculty & Staff's 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award; 2006 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Purpose Driven Life Award, and 2010 Educational Leadership Hope Image Award, 2013 New Mt. Calvary Women of the Year Award and she was a recipient of the Atlantic County Church School & BTU 2014 Dedication Award.

Each year 40 percent of children living on U.S. military installations change schools.

Aimed primarily at 7 - 14 year olds (Key Stages 2 and 3), but suitable for all given the nature of this historic event, this live school assembly, aligned with the national curriculum, has been inspired by Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, the stunning artwork comprising 888,246 ceramic poppies - each one representing a British military fatality during the war - tumbling down the walls and filling the moat at the Tower of London.

Over the past 70 years, the British brand has been right at the heart of transforming what started life as a military workhorse into something achingly desirable that you'd be proud to park on your driveway.

As this year is the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, I have a feeling there will be keen interest in the life of military generals from that period — not that history buffs aren't always interested in the CW.

The story gives a heartfelt and engaging perspective of how that day impacted them and their lives as a military wife and child on the island that day, and the years that follow.

From his birth, to moving regularly with his military family, to attending school and college, to accomplishing more in life than an average person, he shares the ups and downs of almost fifty years.

Raised as a military brat, he spend the first twenty years of his life moving to a new place every few years giving him a unique perspective on most regions of the United states.

But this requirement can present obstacles for married couples who might need one spouse to stay behind, or for military contractors who spend the majority of the year living abroad.

It sounds like a long - term commitment and it is, but if you serve 20 years in the military, the Postal Service or another Federal government job, you can retire early and still draw a large portion of your pay, for life.

After spending two years working for The Netherlands Foreign Service at The Netherlands Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, Brigitte emigrated to the U.S. in the summer of 1993 to join her husband in Camp Pendleton, California where she lived for six years, moved to Okinawa, Japan for three years, then on to Jacksonville, North Carolina for eight years before finally ending up in Manassas, Virginia after her husband retired from the military.

But the real life lessons Michael learned during his years of military service are proving to be the most meaningful and durable; lessons he hopes to teach others.

After seeing first - hand the vital, life - saving role played by military working dogs during 12 years of active duty service as a U.S. Navy SEAL, including combat deployment in Iraq, Ritland started his own company training and supplying dogs for SEAL teams, the U.S. Government, and the Department of Defense.

She's lived in Miami most of her life with the exception of time she lived in England with the Department of Defense work in military base schools and in Puerto Rico a few years after finishing college bachelor's degree.