Sentence examples for military generation from inspiring English sources

He said the 3.5 million men and women of that 911 military generation made their decision with the near certainty they would be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.

A skeptic might be excused for concluding that, to the U.S. military, fourth-generation warfare really means a conflict that will last four generations.

McCain's family has been military for generations.

(Military-quality Generation III scopes can be sold to American law-enforcement agencies, but that remains a tiny market).

In pre-revolutionary Russia, Cossacks were endowed with land property in exchange for police and military service; generations of children inherited their parents' occupations and traditions, and a deeply conservative attitude.

And that means our leaders have used goofball logic and lousy assumptions to trap the country in a cockeyed replay of the Crusades that could drain our treasury and strain our military for generations, without making us any safer from terrorists and maybe putting us more at risk.

We urge you to consider this: This election will be absolutely pivotal to the future of our military for generations to come, as well as those currently serving.

White phosphorus is used in rodent poison and by the military for smoke generation.

He had championed Africa's powerless, knocking down the mighty, including President Olusegun Obasanjo, when he was the country's military ruler a generation ago.

Like many others of his generation military service lifted his horizons, and although the end of the Second World War denied him his ambition to become a pilot, he served as a radio operator in Malaya before he was invalided out of the service with TB.

New generation military detectors [20] contain both electromagnetic induction (EMI) and GPR sensors and give visual sensor data to the user for interpretation.