Sentence examples for garrison service from inspiring English sources

Soon he was back in the trenches, but then invalided home where he got classified B-1, "fit for garrison service abroad".

He chafed at the boredom of peacetime garrison service, although he greatly enjoyed the social life.

Twenty-nine soldiers were assigned to duty at home camps, 4 to garrison service and only 6 to general military service including front-line service (see Table  3).

Transfield Services, the company embroiled in a series of scandals over human rights abuses in its offshore asylum detention centres, appears set to continue running the Manus Island and Nauru facilities for another five years, after being announced as the government's preferred tenderer to run "welfare and garrison support services" offshore.

The exact nature of Transfield's work is mired in mystery - a press release on 29 January merely referred to Garrison Support Services and Welfare at both Manus Island and Nauru - but it's clear that management sees further opportunities with Tony Abbott's government; Canberra has a bottomless pit of money to "stop the boats" and punish refugees.

Transfield reported to the ASX on Monday morning: "Transfield Services Limited has been notified that it has been selected as the preferred tenderer to provide welfare and garrison support services for the Department of Immigration and Border Protection at the regional processing centres in Nauru and Manus provinces.

Military personnel from Colchester Garrison helped emergency services during the night in Maldon in the county and most people evacuated from their homes had left rest centres, police said.

The castles and towns' defences were repaired at considerable expense and brought back into service, garrisoned by local Royalists.

The current contract, for garrison support and welfare services at both Manus and Nauru until February 2017, is worth almost $2.2bn.

The report into the procurement of garrison support and welfare services for the offshore processing centres on Manus Island and Nauru, released on Tuesday, found the department had "fallen well short of effective procurement practice" in negotiating more than $3bn worth of contracts for both centres since they were reopened in 2012.

They would continue in British service as garrison-in-residence at Bermuda until 1816, when the unit was disbanded and the ex-Marines resettled on Trinidad.