Sentence examples for marines were sent from inspiring English sources

Marines were sent to Najaf's main police station at 3 a.m., after his forces attacked it with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, according to a military statement.

After violence erupted in the capital between 8 and 11 July, a further 40 Marines were sent to reinforce the embassy.

And after duty in Kosovo, Kenya and northeast Africa, the marines were sent to Kuwait to prepare for the invasion of Iraq.

US marines were sent to Central America over 30 times, and to Honduras seven times, between 1900 and 1934 to maintain order and quell any threat to the ruling oligarchies.

If the marines were sent there, their mission would be to help the Afghan militias encircle the Taliban holdouts, thereby pressuring them to surrender or flushing them into the open where they could be more easily attacked by American warplanes.

In the months before the war with Iraq, for example, when large numbers of marines were sent to Iraq from bases in the Pacific, where they are on standby for a crisis on the Korean peninsula, the Pentagon ordered a number of long-range bombers to Guam in an overt mission to show North Korea that the United States could still defend the South.

Routh, along with thousands of other marines, was sent there on humanitarian duty.

Tells of the political conflict in the country which led, early in the present century, to U.S. Marines being sent in "to protect American lives and property".

Even as more Marines are sent to diplomatic missions, and two Navy destroyers patrol nearby, Mr. Obama has reached out to leaders like Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, and aides asked YouTube to review its posting of the video.

The 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines was sent to Camp Pendelton where, in December 1945, it was once again disbanded.

Jessica Ondusko, 21, a Rutgers senior, said she became more interested in past wars after her older brother, Matthew, a marine, was sent to Iraq.