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experienced and combat
One of the major themes of the novel is the difficulty of soldiers to revert to civilian life after having experienced extreme combat situations.
The hasty pre-war forces expansion and the over-promotion of inexperienced officers ( owing to the purging of experienced officers ) favored the Wehrmacht in combat.
Each was from a different country with varying cultural and philosophical beliefs, and all were already well-versed in using their mutant powers, several being experienced in combat.
At the time, most U. S. commanders at lower levels had little or no combat experience of any kind ; without the input of experienced British or Allied combat officers on the nature of modern warfare and enemy tactics, many of them resorted to formulaic training methods emphasizing static defense and orderly large-scale advances by motorized convoys over improved roads.
Powell never experienced combat and felt guilty for having survived, writing that soldiers who did so carried " a sort of shame with them to the grave " and referring to the Second Battle of El Alamein as a " separating flame " between the living and the dead.
Robert Bruegmann, professor of art history, architecture, and urban planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Sprawl: A Compact History, stated that historical attempts to combat urban sprawl have failed, and that the high population density of Los Angeles, currently the most dense urban area in the United States, " lies at the root of many of the woes experienced by L. A.
Of the 12, 020 men of the division, only 6, 800 were experienced combat troops, detailed to defend a 53 km front.
Upon passing the GI Bill extension President Obama stated his support of the fighting forces of the United States by saying ; " Over the last eight years, they have endured tour after tour of duty in dangerous and distant places ," ... " They've experienced grueling combat, from the streets of Fallujah to the harsh terrain of Helmand province.
In order to combat the phalanx's infamous right-hand drift ( see article phalanx for further information ), Greek commanders traditionally placed their most experienced, highly regarded and, generally, deadliest troops on the right wing as this was the place of honour.
Operational considerations were provided by experienced Air Force combat pilots Col. Ken Kronlund and Col. Cliff Miller as well as valuable inputs from the Air Force Tactical Fighter Weapons Center.
Garner experienced actual combat in the closing days of the Civil War.
Stark, an experienced woodsman and fighting commander, had been passed over by someone with no combat experience and apparently no will to fight.
Soviet military doctrine used snipers for providing long-distance suppressive fire and for eliminating targets of opportunity, especially leaders, because during World War II, Soviet military leaders and combat theorists ( Vassili Zaitsev contributed greatly to Soviet sniper doctrine, although he was officially neither of these ) found that military organisations have difficulty replacing experienced non-commissioned officers and field officers during times of war.
The 8th Indian Division, however, like the New Zealanders facing their first major combat action since arriving in Italy, experienced tougher opposition.
The loss of his most aggressive and combat experienced carrier admiral on the eve of a crisis was a severe blow to Nimitz.
Yi had never officially studied naval warfare in his limited time in the military academy, and neither he nor his subordinates had experienced naval combat before the Japanese invasion.
However, the forces were dissimilar, in that the Loyalists were far more experienced in combat at this point than their southern colonial counterparts.
The 34th Indiana, 400 strong, was an experienced infantry regiment that had seen combat in the Vicksburg campaign and had been reorganized in December 1863 as a " Veteran " regiment, re-enlisting veteran troops of several regiments whose original enlistments had expired.
By mid-August, Hermann Göring's dissatisfaction with the performance of his fighters led him to replace several of the pre-war Jagdgeschwader ( fighter wing ) commanders with younger and combat experienced aviators.
* Attrition by 1942 had created a shortage of experienced combat leaders.
" They were among the first Mustangs to be hunted by MiG-15s ; it was only the fact that the unit pilots were experienced Second World War combat veterans that they were able to avoid losses in those combats.
Military weapons technology experienced rapid advances during World War II, and over six years there was a disorientating rate of change in combat in everything from aircraft to small arms.
It is believed the story of Plumley being a 4 combat jump experienced member of a Parachute Regiment in WWII was fictitiously generated by the writers of the film.
The Russian navy had accrued several combat experienced admirals during the war ; admirals Oskar Victorovich Stark, Stepan Makarov, and Wilgelm Vitgeft being amongst them.

experienced and commanders
Several experienced commanders who fought in the British military in World War II joined Pakistan Armed Forces giving it professionalism, experience and leadership.
Despite all these beneficial factors, he still fled the battle before any victor had been decided and deserted his experienced commanders as well as one of the largest armies ever assembled.
Most of the generals felt a full engagement against two of the most experienced Protestant commanders was reckless and unlikely to have a positive outcome.
These two were among Rome's most experienced commanders and had been consuls together in 308.
Dumouriez infantry battalions contain thirteen volunteers from 1792, while most Harville men were also volunteers, but most of the older commanders were either experienced soldiers or aristocrats.
With nineteen of China's twenty-nine provincial-level people's revolutionary committees headed by PLA commanders, the military again was in charge of administration and security throughout the country, but it badly needed help from experienced police officers.
Basil II also prepared carefully, assembling a large army of his own and taking his most experienced commanders, including the governor of Philippopolis ( modern Plovdiv ), Nicephorus Xiphias, who had conquered the old Bulgarian capitals Pliska and Preslav from Samuel in 1001.
For the first time in the war, the Spartan crews and commanders were more experienced than their Athenian opposites, as the Athenians ' best crews had been at sea with Conon.
In this position after the attack of Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union and the defeats experienced by the Red Army, on Stalin's order he led the purges of RKKA commanders accused of betrayal and cowardice.
He avoided conviction for the murder because there was a need for experienced field commanders in the Union Army.
At the outbreak of the War of 1812 the American navy was not fully prepared to deal with Britain's large and formidable navy with its hundreds of ships and seasoned commanders and crews, many of whom were already experienced and battle hardened from the Napoleonic wars with France.
84 B-47s were allocated for the training, and Strategic Air Command transferred 30 experienced aircraft commanders to Pinecastle to serve as instructors.
Many Jacobite commanders had seen service in various armies, and field commander George Murray was capable and experienced in modern warfare.
Wu Xu and Yang Fang both increasingly recognized that such a force was necessary, as Imperial forces, frequently staffed by Confucian scholars and conscripts, rather than experienced commanders and soldiers, had all too often proven unequal to the task of defeating Taiping forces.
Militarily, the morale and confidence of Viet Cong commanders and soldiers, who had experienced serious setbacks during the previous year, were significantly boosted.
The outbreak of hostilities in the Pacific in December 1941 thus found Fitch one of the most experienced carrier commanders afloat.
Still, some AFRS teams experienced problems that could not be easily solved by local island commanders, and the teams resorted to other methods of getting the job done.
Hamilton had requested either Lieutenant-General Julian Byng or Lieutenant-General Henry Rawlinson, both experienced Western Front corps commanders, but both were junior to Lieutenant-General Sir Bryan Mahon, commander of the 10th Division and so, by a process of elimination, Stopford was selected.
Its development and organization moved slowly due to lack of funding, arms, ammunition, and experienced military commanders.
The febrile atmosphere in France following the French Revolution was reflected in the fleet, which suffered a mutiny in September 1793 followed by a purge of suspected anti-republicans which resulted in the death or imprisonment of a number of experienced commanders.
However, senior American commanders having faced fanatical enemies and experienced major logistical problems during WWII and the Korean War, insisted that a single powerful. 30 caliber cartridge be developed, that could not only be used by the new automatic rifle, but by the new general purpose machine gun ( GPMG ) in concurrent development.

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