Sentence examples for marine task force from inspiring English sources

Lt. Col. Mark Smith, commanding officer of a Marine task force here, said the slide was a product of frustration among marines over the slow pace of training the police.

At one point, another Marine task force mistook my task force for the enemy.

The land components sent a Marine task force to attack from Baghdad to Tikrit within the last 24 hours.

He also asked Mabus whether he had visited the Marine task force that carried out the research, and the secretary said he had not.

The ships of the Marine task force pulled within view of Monrovia, minutes after Liberia's president, Charles Taylor, resigned under international pressure on Aug. 11 and flew to Nigeria.

Marines Kill 100 Fighters Near Iraqi-Syrian Border A Marine task force swept through a wide area of western Iraq near the Syrian border, killing 100 insurgents and raiding outposts and safe houses belonging to insurgents who have used the area to import money, weapons, and foreigners to fight United States and Iraqi forces, American military officials said.

Seven months after a Marine-led task force returned, Helmand has become one of the few bright spots in the Afghan war, offering a blueprint for President Trump's troop surge, which will raise the number of American service members training and advising Afghan soldiers and police from 11,000 to about 15,000.

That includes the Camp Lejeune marines now serving with – or soon joining – the second marine expeditionary force in Iraq; those with special purpose marine air ground task force in Afghanistan; and those among the 8,000 marines who are preparing to deploy to Afghanistan.

Officers have been assigned on a night watch at every base," Capt Somkiat Ponprayun, provincial marine corps special task force chief, told the Associated Press.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will receive the formal order Friday to deploy a Marine air-ground task force and a Marine battalion to Afghanistan, said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell.

He was part of the special Marine air-ground task force that deployed to Iraq around September, according to the 1 Marine Expeditionary Force public affairs office.