Sentence examples for essential troops from inspiring English sources

They require escorts and are limited in how quickly they can deliver essential troops and matériel.

The ambush Sunday of an Army maintenance company near Nasiriya illuminated the risks faced by the unglamorous but essential troops who carry food, fuel, water and ammunition to front-line troops.

The eminent journalist Mark Bowden wrote in The Atlantic that Beckwith insisted that using five helos would deprive the assault force of twenty essential troops.

In the war against ISIS, the Kurds have become an important ally, providing essential combat troops to a place where a war-weary America will not send its own.

"Nusra provides essential shock troops and, critically, suicide bombers.

She was part of a "force support squadron," where her job was to "provide essential services for troops that are going into combat in Iraq and Afghanistan," she said.

Earlier on Tuesday, the military's senior officer, Gen. Richard B. Myers, defended the use of the vaccine as essential to safeguarding troops facing adversaries who may attack with unconventional weapons.

Coalition troops were essential to support a new Iraqi government.

But it has, and U.S. troops are essential to its success.

The commercial, which said Mr. Kerry voted against providing troops with essential equipment, was sent electronically to local stations in time for his arrival.

The city's bridges, which were eventually captured, are essential to the allied troops behind Marine Task Force Tarawa, who are looking to head north, toward Baghdad.