Sentence examples for during convoy from inspiring English sources

The brigade also created a Combat Logistics Patrol academy, training for combat situations during convoy operations, including improvised explosive device detection and removal, and first aid.

"The price has been so high". In another case, a KBR truck driver who had endured constant attacks during convoy runs returned home to panic attacks and nightmares -- sometimes reliving the desperate moment when he was forced to use a claw hammer in hand-to-hand combat to defend his truck against an insurgent.

During convoy service in World War II, Empire Simba initially sailed between the United Kingdom and North America carrying cargos of scrap iron from the United States.

As required during convoys, we rode in full combat gear with the vehicles "buttoned up" -- windows closed and no fresh air in 120-degree heat.

Because I've got two".' It was her husband, Sgt. Floyd G. Knighten Jr., a 55-year-old mechanic with the Guard's 1087th Transportation Company, who had died of heat stroke during a convoy across the Iraqi desert.

Private Bales, who was assigned to the First Transportation Support Battalion, First Force Service Support Group, from Camp Pendleton, was killed in what the Defense Department called "a nonhostile vehicle accident" during a convoy east of Ash Shahin, Iraq.

In late January, Ferdinand and I ride together during a convoy back to Baghdad.

I meet him for the first time in mid-January, during a convoy back to Baghdad to collect supplies from CACIville.

On 24 April, during a convoy crossing in Army service, Naval Armed Guardsmen on Kentuckian sighted a torpedo heading towards the second ship behind her in the column.

A total of 17 U-boats attacked JW 58 between 1 and 3 April without success; none of the Allied ships suffered any damage, and the escorts sank four U-boats and shot down six German aircraft during the convoy's voyage from Scotland to the Soviet Union.

They were subsequently involved in a number of actions, including an incident on 21 May when they were flown to the scene of a downed Canadian civilian helicopter 20 km north of Mogadishu to protect the crew, and another on 16 August when they were involved in a skirmish during a convoy which resulted in two Somalis being killed after one of them aimed an AK-47 at the Australians.