Sentence examples for airmen like from inspiring English sources

They're the airmen, like those here today, who provide the close air support that saves the lives of our troops on the ground.

His most gripping pages are devoted to airmen like Lt. Robert Rosenthal, nicknamed Rosie, a young Brooklyn lawyer who enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor, piloted 25 missions and then volunteered for a second tour of duty.

The whiz kids infuriated crusty airmen like Gen. Curtis LeMay (who told Los Alamos bomb designers back in the 1950's that he wanted one bomb big enough to destroy all of Russia), but they changed the way weapons were acquired by the Pentagon.

The turnaround was dizzying, but airmen like Thompson never lost their focus and performed with enthusiasm and courage.

Eventually, though, the task of conducting the drone war will fall entirely on airmen like these, who represent a new phase of warfare.

The project would double the capacity of the port of Port Moresby, but in order to build it Johns had to divert the African-American 96th Engineers from work on the airfields around Port Moresby, raising fears from airmen like Brigadier General Ennis Whitehead that the airfields would not be ready for all-weather operations by the time that the rainy season arrived.

He said that before the invitation was made Tuesday, he had already been trying to get word to higher ups that the airmen would like to be invited.

"I was frankly a little surprised at the significant medical conditions of some of the soldiers, sailors, and airmen: things like chronic pain, cardiac problems, respiratory issues," Ehrenfeld said.

Beside it she placed an album by the Pretenders, one by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, because she liked the cover, and "$1,000,000.00 Worth of Twang," by the guitarist Duane Eddy.

The photographer Cecil Beaton made a gleefully snobbish inventory of the Dorchester's inhabitants: "Cabinet ministers and their self-consciously respectable wives; hatchet-jawed, iron-grey brigadiers; calf-like airmen off duty; tarts on duty; actresses (also); déclassé society people; cheap musicians and motor-car agents".

The new name is based on General Hammond referring to Jones's character as "Airman" (sounding like "Harriman") in the pilot episode, and SG-1 writer Joseph Mallozzi explained the resulting incongruity as a married-name issue.