Sentence examples for operational missions from inspiring English sources

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".

"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.

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.

Others mention the dangers of close combat: "for some time we have been engaged in a very real war - the other day I flew two long operational missions in one day - I have learned to have a healthy respect for both flack and bombs".

During Operation Southern Watch, which enforced the no-fly-zone in Iraq, he went beyond the normal chaplain's role, working alongside the servicemen performing their various jobs: flying on operational missions to refuel aircraft, working with maintenance repairmen, cooking with people who worked in the chow hall.

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.

Col. Kathleen Cook, a spokeswoman for Air Force Space Command. said the military wanted "to ensure the public understands that the detected and quarantined virus posed no threat to our operational mission and that control of our remotely piloted aircraft was never in question".