Sentence examples for logistical missions from inspiring English sources

Known in the military as combat support and combat service support, such units perform important logistical missions, and the American effort in Iraq has required the mobilization of tens of thousands of reservists for those duties.

Smith's aircraft fought Kuwaiti oil field fires after the Gulf War, combated tsetse flies in Africa, delivered food to refugees from Kosovo, destroyed opium poppies in Mexico and Peru, performed more than 200 logistical missions for U.S. forces in Afghanistan and shuttled personnel to "every oil patch in the free world," according to a company video.

Trenton is the country's busiest air force base and provides logistical support for missions in Haiti and Afghanistan as well as for the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.

They performed various logistical and transport missions, such as the repositioning of Royal Artillery L118 Light Guns in the region and in the evacuation of casualties.

"We've done everything we can," she said, stressing that the preparation of the containers and all the logistical requirements the mission asked for are in Syria.

He later joined the Pathfinders, an exclusive paratrooper unit that jumped behind enemy lines to provide logistical help to Allied missions, including in the Battle of Bulge.

As many as 75 American Special Forces troops now train Yemeni forces, and some proponents of the plan envision these advisers also accompanying Yemeni troops on helicopter missions as logistical advisers.

The Division was charged with the mission of quelling civil unrest and restoring order to the country, and the DISCOM provided logistical support during this mission.

The convoy, carrying food, fuel and spare parts for the French military for 800 miles, underlines the logistical difficulties facing the mission in Mali.

And they were not given the logistical details of the mission until shortly before it was under way.

To meet the most urgent health needs, a field hospital has been set up in tents at the UN mission's logistical base in Port-au-Prince.