Sentence examples for deployments the first from inspiring English sources

Far too often during my deployments — the first in 2007, the second last year — I watched as operations were conducted out of logistical convenience rather than necessity.

For the remainder of its deployment, the first contingent focused most of its efforts on providing accommodations for electoral centres and police stations.

The series chronicles the yearlong deployment of the First Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, based in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan.

The deployment marks the first use in combat of the Air Force's Global Hawk, a drone that is still in development.

The deployment is the first time that Russia has combined the aircraft carrier's defensive capability with the offensive capability of Peter the Great, a nuclear-powered battlecruiser.

The deployment is the first time since World War II that the Japanese military has been used to support forces engaged in combat.

This flight was the initiative's first research deployment, and the first step toward realizing the mission statement of democratizing access to space.

In December, President Bush announced that the international threats facing the United States justified a deployment of the first missiles in the program beginning next year.

But in its budget request, the White House included a short paragraph asking that the actual deployment of the first missiles next year be considered part of the development and demonstration of the system, rather than its actual use.

We started to plan crew deployment before the first rain drop even fell.

Nodes deployment is the first step in establishing a sensor network.