Sentence examples for force of marines from inspiring English sources

A large force of marines is at sea there, too.

They were a mixed force of marines and Army soldiers, not just marines.

General Kimmitt referred reporters to the First Marine Expeditionary Force, which assigned a 1,300-member 1,300-memberines and Iraqi security forces tofthe assault.

I've had my own struggle: in 2001 I was part of the initial force of Marines who landed in Afghanistan, and in 2003 took part in the heavy fighting of the first wave of the invasion of Iraq.

To keep fresh waves of demonstrators out, the Navy brought in a force of marines to take up positions on the scrub-forested perimeter and beaches of Camp Garcia.

In advance of his latest coup attempt, a sympathetic US sent a force of marines to Sicily ready to intervene, and John Kerry has promised to help Libya with "security and extremism".

It will also enable scientists to monitor the destructive forces of marine erosion, which are predicted to get worse.

Last month, a force of British marines moved into a district called Nad Ali in Helmand Province, the center of the country's poppy cultivation.

The group is carrying the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, a force of 2,100 marines equipped with helicopters, amphibious assault vehicles and artillery for speedy, small-scale attacks.

It took him 39 hours to deploy a force of 1,800 marines, 700 Army Rangers, 1,600 Army paratroopers and several dozen Navy Seal commandos.

The United States should quickly offer to build up the current force of 50 marines who arrived Monday to protect the American Embassy and make it the core of a multinational stabilization force that would also include soldiers from France, Canada and Latin America.