Sentence examples for long deployment to from inspiring English sources

Approximately 140 marines and sailors are making a final year long deployment to the Helmand province area of Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Approximately 140 of the I MEF command element's 300 Marines and sailors are making a final year long deployment to the Helmand province area of Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

As San Diego LGBT Weekly is reporting, Cory Huston -- himself a Navy veteran once assigned to the Marines as a hospital corpsman -- dropped to one knee before asking U.S. Marine Avarice Guerrero, who was returning home from a long deployment, to marry him.

Army officials say the stress of long deployments to war zones plays a role in the increase.

Admiral Mullen told them his priorities were to "reconstitute, reset, revitalize" a military strained by long deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and the officers told him repeatedly that their morale remained high.

Those followed two suicides last summer by staff members, and come as the Army is grappling with a record number of suicides among its members, many of whom have endured long deployments to war zones.

Benjamin Buchholz is the author of Private Soldiers, about his Wisconsin National Guard unit's year-long deployment to southern Iraq.

18 Although much higher in cost relative to other medications, the cost of even this most expensive medication comprises only a small fraction of the total costs of a year-long deployment to Afghanistan, which by recent estimates may be as high as $500,000 19 to $1,000,000 20 annually.

But while the troops seemed clearly pleased to have Mr. Bush with them, their enthusiasm seemed tempered in some cases by the likelihood that they might have to ship out again next year for a long deployment, possibly to Iraq.

In his report on the matter, he contends that we are more of a danger to ourselves than we are to our enemies with these long deployments leading to drug and alcohol abuse, and scrapes with the law.

Army studies and surveys show that multiple deployments and long deployments contribute to higher rates of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and marital problems.