Sentence examples for marines during a from inspiring English sources
In 2007, Iran captured 15 Royal Navy sailors and marines during a maritime inspection near Iraq and held them for 13 days in a disputed episode that drew the world's attention.
It happened one thankfully windy afternoon as a cloud of deadly white phosphorus — a high-powered chemical that can burn through cars — inched its way toward him and a group of fellow Marines during a mishap in a California training exercise.
The Iranian and US navies have routine professional exchanges but there have been incidents of heightened tension: notably in 2007, they captured 15 Royal Navy sailors and marines during a maritime inspection near Iraq and held them for 13 days in a disputed episode that drew the world's attention.
Human error has been blamed for a March mortar explosion that killed seven Marines during a live-fire training exercise in Nevada.
"If you'd asked me four months ago if we'd be in Libya today, I would have asked, 'What were you smoking?' " Mr. Gates told Marines during a visit to Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Corporal Harris was trying to help an injured marine during a firefight.
(images: Larry Downing/Reuters. caption: U.S. President George W. Bush (C) visits with two U.S. Marines wounded during a suicide bomber attack in Iraq after arriving back at the White House in Washington, December 9, 2008.
"This is the coolest thing ever," one Marine enthuses during a firefight.
The Middle Miocene Sequence in Iraq was deposited in a broad basin following a marine transgression during a phase of strong subsidence that overlapped the margins of the former Oligocene Early Miocene basin, especially in NE of Iraq.
In the late Pleistocene, a gentle surface distributed these weathering products along the pediment slopes as colluvial materials, whereas in the coastal areas aeolian processes formed large sand dunes composed of reworked calcareous sands from marine sources during a time of very low sea level.
He served as a lieutenant in the US marines during the second world war and was stationed in Okinawa in 1945.
