Sentence examples for on standby for deployment from inspiring English sources

"I see a soldier, a person," said Staff Sgt. William Eaker, whose mother, a nurse, is a reservist on standby for deployment.

Swofford remembers back to August 1990, when his unit -- the Surveillance and Target Acquisition Platoon, scout/snipers, of the Second Battalion, Seventh Marines -- is put on standby for deployment to Saudi Arabia after Saddam Hussein's forces rumbled into Kuwait.

And our own Emergency Services team, while also monitoring the record flooding in Nashville, Tenn .and preparing for our Animal Care Expo to be held in the city next week, have readied our equipment and are on standby for deployment from wherever they may be when the call comes.

The regiment was not involved in operations during the Gulf War in 1991 although two troops were again placed on standby for deployment at short notice, while other elements remained on high alert to respond to a terrorist incident in Australia if required.

And another 3,500 troops in Germany remain on standby for possible deployment.

Quick response teams from the Department of Social Welfare and Development were placed on standby for possible deployment.

"We've also alerted our Global Rapid Response Team and have put team members on standby for possible deployment to affected areas.

More than 6,000 soldiers, including paratroopers and Royal Marine commandos, have been on 48 hours standby for deployment to Afghanistan since the weekend.

Being permanently on standby for something momentous is exhausting.

"I was on standby for 25 years," she says.

Four more teams are on standby for flood-prone coastal districts, he said.