Sentence examples for for artillery support from inspiring English sources

Also disregarded were calls for artillery support.

Windisch and Sawick radioed headquarters, asking for artillery support.

Officers at the nearby Army headquarters denied the request for artillery support, leaving the men, many of them wounded, to fight on their own until helicopter gunships arrived.

Will Swenson of the Army, who worked with the border police and was also trapped, shouted into his radio for artillery support to suppress the Taliban fighters.

None of the four hit anything, and the Sergeant radioed the platoon command for artillery support, which was quickly granted; the coöperation, Eriksson recalled, pleased Meserve no end, since it implicitly conferred an importance on the skirmish.

When they were fired on by insurgents in the nearby hills, they radioed for artillery support, a request that was rejected on the ground that civilians might be injured.

The Kurdish peshmerga had proved effective in small groups with US special forces support, but was no match for an integrated, confident and highly mobile force with plenty of artillery support.

One of Mr. Gantamirov's fighters recalled today that his men had asked for Russian artillery support when they were battling in Grozny's streets.

This allowed for rapid artillery support as the need arose.

The troops felt that their lives were not sufficiently valued because they had to justify every request for air or artillery support, making it easier for the Taliban to fight.

Insurgents ambush convoys and patrols from high ridges or long ranges and slip away as the Americans, weighed down by equipment, return fire and call for air and artillery support.