Sentence examples for floating military from inspiring English sources

Mr. Taylor's idea was to turn the hull into a floating military barracks.

France has a contract to build two Mistral-class warships, floating military bases that carry helicopters, tanks and troops.

"They are floating military bases," explained General Jean-Claude allaresearchsearch director at the Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS) and an advisor for the Ministry of Defense.

WASHINGTON — The Navy is converting an amphibious transport and docking ship to serve as a floating base for military operations and humanitarian assistance, with deployment expected this summer to waters in the Middle East, Pentagon officials said Friday.

Rear Adm. Thomas J. Eccles, the deputy commander for naval systems engineering, said the first laser device would be deployed on the Ponce, which serves as a floating base for military operations and humanitarian assistance in the waters of the Middle East and southwestern Asia.

The truss structure provides a lightweight fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) module that can be rapidly installed as decking for floating structures or military causeways.

This bridge, at 2239 feet was the longest assault floating bridge in military history.

A free-floating military balloon that wreaked havoc in the northeast has finally returned to earth.  .

In his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman advocated policies such as a volunteer military, freely floating exchange rates, abolition of medical licenses, a negative income tax, and school vouchers.

Essex and other Navy ships, which had been conducting joint exercises with the Thai military, floated offshore in the Andaman Sea while American officials tried to negotiate the unloading of vital relief equipment, such as heavy-lift helicopters and water-purification machines.

They parallel the political and military doubts quietly floating in many corners.