Sentence examples for feeding troops from inspiring English sources

Halliburton won a 10-year contract in a competitive tender to provide a range of services to the military, from managing latrines, to laundry services and feeding troops.

This year got off to an inauspicious start when the Defence Department reversed a plan to take bids on a new contract for feeding troops in Afghanistan.

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company had overcharged the government by sixteen million dollars on a bill for the cost of feeding troops at a military base in Kuwait.

And yet we fight on, feeding troops into the meat-grinder year after tragic year — to what end? "Clearly, the final chapters of this particular endeavor are very much yet to be written," said Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, during a BBC interview over the weekend.

They provided the means to feed troops in undreamed-of numbers; and also the means to destroy them.

And Napoleon for canned food, which he thought up when he was seeking a more efficient way to feed troops?

Public Warehousing, which is now called Agility Logistics, receives more than $1 billion a year to feed troops in Iraq and Kuwait.

In early 1971, fueled by limited success in the previous year's incursions against North Vietnamese "sanctuaries" in Cambodia, United States and South Vietnamese strategists decided to invade Laos in a bold operation to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the 300-mile jungle road network by which Hanoi fed troops, weaponry and supplies southward to Cambodia and South Vietnam.

The effort to influence shoppers' habits through word of mouth dates to the 1940s when the U.S. government began shipping meat to Europe and the Pacific to feed troops fighting in World War II.

*He spent his own considerable fortune on clothing and feeding his troops.

"The West says it is targeting the regime, but one can easily see that the regime is feeding its troops and the people are starving".