Sentence examples for paratroopers deployed from inspiring English sources

I don't mean to criticize the active-duty Army; the paratroopers deployed to Louisiana performed their job admirably (my own deployment was called off at the last minute).

"We have been able to establish that among the 500 paratroopers deployed from 8 August, 1 Para – the same unit sent into the Bogside in Derry – was on our streets.

Pskov's paratroopers deployed to Rostov in early August; families quickly grew anxious when the soldiers stopped calling and writing.

Paratroopers are deployed and open fire, volley after volley.

Over 36 hours between 9 and 11 August 1971 – six months before British paratroopers were deployed to Derry with tragic consequences – the Parachute Regiment shot dead 11 civilians in the west Belfast housing estate of Ballymurphy.

In all, 3,600 of the division's paratroopers were deployed to New Orleans to participate in Task Force All-American.

James, a 26-year-old paratrooper twice deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, went AWOL in July after being reassigned to Fort Bliss, Tex., an Army post in the mountainous high-desert region near El Paso.

One divisional command sergeant-major says the paratroopers can deploy from anywhere to anywhere and always take their parachutes, just in case.A two-hour drive from Fort Bragg, at Camp Lejeune, home of the II Marine Expeditionary Force, officers say they too are operating "with engines at full throttle".

Some Serbs stood around, playing nationalist music on loudspeakers and lobbing a few stones at American paratroopers who were deployed on the main bridge overnight.

They have jumped out of airplanes as paratroopers, and have deployed in far-forward combat operations.

On 9 July, Belgium deployed paratroopers, without the Congolese state's permission, in Kabalo and elsewhere to protect fleeing white civilians.