Sentence examples for coalition units from inspiring English sources
Sometimes, Afghan and coalition units are separated by mere yards, and they often man posts together and split duty in guard towers.
This seems somewhat obvious in theory, but can be extraordinarily difficult for coalition units to realize once they arrive on the ground and feel the pressure from higher headquarters to demonstrate 'results' in a short period of time.
Spooked lawmakers took their threat seriously and turned to the country's Shiite militias to bolster the severely weakened armed forces, incorporating fighters into coalition units with regular troops.
Numerous gunfights with insurgents and painstaking efforts to clear roads of makeshift bombs slowed the advance of many coalition units and delayed them from reaching some key destinations in this farming area of 80,000 people.
The Australian Special Forces Task Force was one of the first coalition units forces to cross the border into Iraq, while for a few days, the closest ground troops to Baghdad were from the SASR.
Elements of the Iraqi 6th Armored Brigade, ordered to take the heights above Al-Zabr, engaged Coalition units at Al-Zabr.
He said that an airstrike was called in after the Taliban opened fire on a coalition unit, and that a missile struck a compound where a wedding party was being held.
For the poorly equipped coalition of units fighting in the Free Syrian Army "it's an all-hands-on-deck situation," said Andrew Tabler, a Syria expert with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Military officials acknowledge that the new systems fielded by American, coalition and Afghan units do not all speak to one another.
The increasing murkiness of the battlefield, as the freewheeling rebels advance and retreat and as fighters from both sides mingle among civilians, has prompted NATO members to issue new "rules of engagement" spelling out when the coalition may attack units on the ground in the name of protecting civilians.
The characteristic function represents, therefore, the change in the efficiency scores of the inefficient DMUs that occurs when a given coalition of efficient units is dropped from the sample.
