Sentence examples for deploy paratroopers from inspiring English sources

The civil rights activist who led the Bloody Sunday march has expressed his disappointment that the Saville report failed to criticise the man who took the decision to deploy paratroopers in Derry.

On 9 July, Belgium deployed paratroopers, without the Congolese state's permission, in Kabalo and elsewhere to protect fleeing white civilians.

In a Sunday Times interview 20 years later, he said it was "mad" to deploy the paratroopers.

China's air force deployed 6,500 paratroopers to Sichuan, but only 15 ended up dropping into the disaster zone, military officials said, because of bad weather and forbidding mountain terrain.

Two months later, the government deployed 80 paratroopers to Bangui.

In addition, on the night before the invasion, a small group of Special Air Service SASS) operators deployed dummy paratroopers over Le Havre and Isigny.

I don't mean to criticize the active-duty Army; the paratroopers deployed to Louisiana performed their job admirably (my own deployment was called off at the last minute).

"We have been able to establish that among the 500 paratroopers deployed from 8 August, 1 Para – the same unit sent into the Bogside in Derry – was on our streets.

Pskov's paratroopers deployed to Rostov in early August; families quickly grew anxious when the soldiers stopped calling and writing.

Zaire, in a bid to install a pro-Kinshasa government and thwart the MPLA's drive for power, deployed armored cars, paratroopers, and three infantry battalions to Angola in support of the FNLA.

One divisional command sergeant-major says the paratroopers can deploy from anywhere to anywhere and always take their parachutes, just in case.A two-hour drive from Fort Bragg, at Camp Lejeune, home of the II Marine Expeditionary Force, officers say they too are operating "with engines at full throttle".