Sentence examples for operational mission from inspiring English sources

TDR-1 aircraft equipped a single mixed squadron (Special Air Task Group 1) along with TBM Avenger control aircraft, and the first operational mission took place on September 27, conducting bombing operations against Japanese ships.

The inclusion of an operations team has provided the added benefit of giving NASA mission operations flight control personnel the opportunity to begin examining operational mission control techniques, team compositions, and mission scenarios.

It's the end of the operational mission, but the science is continuing and it will continue for many years.

"It's just a mindset they got into, that this was an operational vehicle, on an operational mission, and you don't have to worry about it," the person said.

The term air division denotes a command within an air force, containing two or more wings organized to perform an operational mission such as bombardment, fighter interception, reconnaissance, or airlift.

He said his operational mission had ended with his capture and that he would use the time he had left before his almost inevitable execution to speak openly about his beliefs.

Operational missions of the single-engine jets would go to Hill Air Force Base in Utah and the Burlington Air Guard Station in Vermont, the Air Force said Thursday.

"History shows that the costs of war will continue to grow for a decade or more after the operational missions in Iraq and Afghanistan have ended," Eric K. Shinseki, the secretary of veterans affairs, said in a statement.

I ask Mattingley, who went on to teach secondary school history after the war, how he feels now, in peacetime, about the "enemy" Germans upon whom he dropped bombs during 23 operational missions.

ANP readiness at the end of 2008 was abysmal (pdf): only 18 of the nearly 375 ANP units were rated "capable of operating independently", while 317 units were rated "formed but not yet capable of conducting primary operational missions".

On Sunday, he mobilized military reserves — particularly medical staff for hospital ships — signing an executive order that said it was necessary to back up active-duty troops "for the effective conduct of operational missions, including those involving humanitarian assistance, related to relief efforts in Haiti".