Sentence examples for lengthy deployment from inspiring English sources

Her second reading was a poem to her daughter, whom she had to leave as a newborn for a lengthy deployment.

Airman Alnajjar and his wife, Rosemarie, who were married in October 2001, have had to delay their wedding party twice because of the lengthy deployment.

But the hoopla could not disguise the melancholic purpose of the gathering: to prepare the families of the soldiers for another lengthy deployment of their division to Iraq at the end of September.

The announcement was made amid complaints from Congress and the families of part-time troops about the stress of lengthy deployments.

American troops have been taxed by lengthy deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Pentagon officials have sought to replace them with indigenous or allied troops.

Pentagon officials have been paying close attention to recruiting efforts by the Army, which has struggled to attract new troops as the nation remains deeply engaged in a prolonged war in Iraq that has required repeated, lengthy deployments.

In one exchange before Congress, General Dempsey said that an American strike on Syria would be "an act of war," prompting a rebuttal from Mr. Kerry, who said the options were nothing like the huge mobilizations and lengthy deployments of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Troop morale is of increasing concern to the Pentagon's senior civilian and military leaders, who are watching personnel statistics to see if the lengthy deployments of active duty and reserve forces since Sept. 11, 2001, are affecting recruitment and retention.

She had a steel hull sheathed with wood and zinc to protect it from fouling during lengthy deployments abroad.

The guard and reservists could be put into units deployed for shorter periods, or be bribed to volunteer for lengthier deployments.

Hetherington and Junger embedded themselves for a year with the Second Platoon of Battle Company of the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade in the Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan to shoot the bulk of Restrepo and created a non-fiction film that approximates the experience of a lengthy military deployment in the country as much as would be possible without actually going there oneself.