Sentence examples for ground mission from inspiring English sources

Within weeks, they are expected to leave, turning over the ground mission to the United States Army.

"If we have effective partners on the ground, mission creep is less likely," Obama said in a brief press conference Monday afternoon.

But the only American ground mission known to have taken place was a Special Operations raid on Sept. 3, in which the roughly two dozen people killed included some civilians.

Mr. Rumsfeld defended the decision to rely extensively on allied Afghan fighters for the ground mission at Tora Bora, even though the shortcomings of those local troops were clear in advance.

The reports that Saudi Arabia is sending troops and aircraft to Turkey for a possible ground mission in Syria adds a highly combustible element to a fine balance between fragile hopes of a ceasefire and the slide into a conflict even bloodier than the one taking place now.

A second marine expeditionary unit, the 26th, remains in the Arabian Sea, but is drawing its forces in Afghanistan back onto ships as soldiers from the Army's 101st Airborne Division assume the main ground mission in southern Afghanistan, based at Kandahar.

Last week, a security official in Islamabad gave the Guardian details of three hitherto unknown ground missions conducted by joint CIA-Pakistani teams to capture Bin Laden.

The months-long delay in approving ground missions created intense frustration inside the military's Special Operations community, which believed that the Bush administration was holding back as the Qaeda safe haven inside Pakistan became more secure for militants.

After months of debate within the administration and mounting frustration over Pakistan's failure to carry out more aggressive counterterrorism operations, President Bush finally gave his approval in July for ground missions inside Pakistan.

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"We have not withdrawn our permission for the United States to carry out special operations ground missions.