Sentence examples for pool of soldiers from inspiring English sources

The Pentagon says that obesity is shrinking its pool of soldiers.

They recruit trained hitmen from the pool of soldiers laid off by several countries' armies, slashed since the end of the civil wars 20 years ago.

But there is only one pool of soldiers and equipment available to both NATO and the EU, and one pot of money to finance them; maintaining separate planning bureaucracies would be wasteful and could split the alliance.

However, only Communist soldiers were allowed to crew Soviet tanks, and as a result the pool of soldiers to recruit from was narrow and often less adept drivers were picked over better ones, due to their political ideologies.

Both NATO and the EU are now creating "rapid reaction forces", potentially drawing upon the same pools of soldiers.

The country is already suffering through a shrinking pool of eligible soldiers, and that will soon get worse.

The Pentagon has to rely on voluntary recruits, and that's a tricky business especially when many in the pool of potential soldiers aren't physically fit enough to join the military.

Epidemics appeared to be caused by the large pool of parasitemic soldiers who infected the local mosquitoes during the brief mid-year period suitable for malaria transmission at high altitudes and occurred mostly within the military camp, the township of Kericho, and the tea estates, while sparing most "native reserve areas" (18 ).

Nevertheless, the Militia provided a pool of experienced officers and soldiers who could be used to expand the Army in the event of war, and indeed during the course of the war about 200,000 Militia soldiers volunteered for overseas service.

And by then, Mr. Slaughter's idea for a bronze statue had changed into a plan for a patterned garden and plaza representing England and the approach to Normandy and a pool and waterfall with bronze sculptures of soldiers struggling against the tide and the enemy.

Last week's mobilization decision involved the Army's Individual Ready Reserve, a pool of 117,000 former officers and soldiers who have completed their active or reserve duty, but still have time left on the eight-year contracts they signed when they enlisted.