Sentence examples for alert mission from inspiring English sources

Two Air National Guard F-4 jets from Kingsley Field were rolled out for an alert mission Monday on the orders of the air defense command, which had detected an unknown aircraft 150 miles off the Washington coast.

The aircraft was carrying four hydrogen bombs on a Cold War "Chrome Dome" alert mission over Baffin Bay when a cabin fire forced the crew to abandon the aircraft before they could carry out an emergency landing at Thule Air Base.

Mr. Bush finished his pilot training in June 1970 and shifted to weekend duty, flying alert missions with his F-102 squadron outside Houston.

Normally, fighters on standby are based at airfields on Britain's east coast, flying "quick reaction alert" missions that intercept the four-engine Russian Bear bombers and airborne spy planes that continue to run occasional training missions that approach British-controlled airspace, 20 years after the cold war ended.

The UNH-NOAA team alerted mission control when its members spied what looked like gas escaping from the well.

He alerted Mission Control to the problem before setting up the television camera and planting the flag of the United States with Duke.

Third, the recent travel alert and mission closures warrant suspicion because of the US government's history of using terror alerts to manipulate public opinion.

Another reason for being suspicious about Friday's announcement of the travel alert and mission closures is the justification given for them in official statements.

When they were alerted by Mission Control, Capt.

The decision not to restart on-alert bomber missions was also a reflection of the strategic decline of manned nuclear weapon delivery in favor of unmanned delivery via ICBMs, which had already eclipsed the number of bombers in the United States by April 1964.

Fighter jets were on alert during the mission but did not need to be deployed, he explained.