Sentence examples for marines the first from inspiring English sources

The possible fight would be, for these marines, the first against regular Iraqi forces since the war began.

This summer, about 250 United States Marines, the first of 2,500 to be deployed to Australia, trained with the Australian Army near the port city of Darwin and with other militaries in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.

I'll have a taste of the freedom I've been fighting for". Soule proudly counts himself among the "Darkside" -- the battle-weary 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines -- the first U.S. military unit to serve three rotations in Iraq.

The Peralta family, which includes Rafael's three siblings, moved to San Diego from Tijuana, Mexico, when Rafael was a teenager, and he joined the Marines the first moment he could legally do so, on the same morning he got his green card.

Perhaps the loss of eight more Marines, the first combat death of a Navy flier and Syria's capture of a second flier could not match the horror of the bombing of the Marine compound six weeks ago, but last week marked a new watershed, robbing President Reagan of the foreign policy momentum he had gained after the invasion of Grenada.

If Al Smith were in the White House, they would have sent out the marines with the first slump — and they would have been Republican marines.

Military officials said that South Korean marines spent the first day running drills aimed at searching for and destroying enemy submarines.

One of the marines in the First Reconnaissance Battalion, with whom Wright travelled, Sergeant Rudy Reyes who has Hollywood good looks and, indeed, plays himself in the miniseries told NPR that the show sticks closely to the book.

By 1965, there were 25,000 military advisors in South Vietnam and on March 8 , 1965 the United States Marines became the first US combat troops to land in South Vietnam, with a force of 3,500.

Outboard Marine, the second-largest builder of outboard motors, filed for bankruptcy at the end of 2000, and last spring Brunswick, one of the largest makers of pleasure boats, announced that it was shutting down eight plants.

"Jarhead" was a chronicle of Mr. Swofford's time as a Marine during the first Gulf War.