Sentence examples for Ad hoc force from inspiring English sources

The history of the Swiss Air Force began in 1914 with the establishment of an ad hoc force consisting of a handful of men in outdated and largely civilian aircraft.

In this paper, a technique consisting of taking advantage of the periodic character of the discrete Fourier transform to include an ad hoc force pulse to impose the ICs is proposed.

Kondo's ad hoc force rendezvoused at Ontong Java on the evening of 13 November, then reversed course and refueled out of range of Henderson Field's bombers on the morning of 14 November.

1st Marine Division commander General Richard F. Natonski assembled an ad-hoc force of six Marine battalions, three Army battalions, three Iraqi battalions, and the British Black Watch Regiment.

A handful of colonels have organised ad hoc forces of veterans.

As thousands of people evacuated from low-lying areas were returning home on Wednesday, an ad hoc security force of police and members of the Chilean armed forces searched Iquique for the estimated 329 female prisoners thought to have escaped.

Why did the military not send an ad hoc rescue force from Sigonella Navy Base, while the CIA was sending six men as the rescue force from Tripoli, about equal distance from Benghazi?

"Despite all the questions we asked, in retrospect there were things we could have done better," says Kelvin Droegemeier, vice chairman of NSF's oversight body, the National Science Board, and head of an ad hoc task force formed after the recent descoping to monitor the project.

Dr. Alpern appointed an Ad Hoc Task Force on Gender Equity, whose report is expected shortly.

In July, NASA's Ad Hoc Task Force on Planetary Defense gathered for two days in a shabby, fluorescent-lit conference room at the Millennium Harvest House hotel, in Boulder, Colorado.

In his 2011 article, "Vermin of the Sky," Tad Friend attends a meeting of NASA's Ad Hoc Task Force on Planetary Defense — "seven graying men with laptops and unstylish haircuts".