Sentence examples for defense command from inspiring English sources

During the war Andrews, as air commander in the Caribbean and later as head of the Caribbean defense command, was the first U.S. airman to command an entire theatre.

"We continue to see disturbing elements of air defense, command and control, resupply equipment coming across a completely porous border," NATO supreme commander Gen. Philip Breedlove said late last month.

The remainder is divided between the air force (including the air defense command) and navy.

Until Sept. 11, the defense command better known as Norad had always been oriented toward threats from abroad.

If the planes were attacked, one target would be a reinforced air defense command and control center.

The Pentagon plans to start construction on silos and a missile defense command center at Fort Greely, Alaska, in late April or early May.

In Iraq today, allied warplanes attacked an air defense command-and-control site about 170 miles southeast of Baghdad, the United States Central Command said.

Frontier defense forces, aligned in nine defense commands stretching from Manchuria to Gansu, kept China free from Mongol incursions, except for occasional raiding forays such as those by Esen Taiji and Altan Khan.

The first computer networks were dedicated special-purpose systems such as SABRE (an airline reservation system) and AUTODIN I (a defense command-and-control system), both designed and implemented in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

In June 1944 Yawata lay within the Western District of Japan's four regional defense commands.

In November 1945, Streett proposed a reorganization of United States air power into separate commands: Eastern and Western air defense commands, a tactical air support command and a training command.