Sentence examples for practice missions from inspiring English sources

Closer to the shore, marine mammals have exhibited frenzied and disoriented behavior during the emissions of sonar blasts as part of the Navy's practice missions.

Space station practice missions dominated space news during 1995 as the United States and Russia prepared to start building an international space station that could cost a total of $100 billion through the year 2012.

At the Pentagon, officials announced that the United States and South Korea would hold exercises in coming weeks to practice missions detecting enemy submarines and intercepting cargo vessels suspected of hauling nuclear weapons, bomb-making materials or other prohibited arms.

We used to fly practice missions with US pilots.

He flew a number of practice missions, but not the bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

Practice missions were carried out against the wreck of the, a liner that had run aground in 1923.

After barely surviving a plane crash during a military practice mission in 1917, DeHaven was inspired to pursue a career in safety engineering.

Some privately-backed rival ventures are even forecasting that they will get to Mars orbit as early as 2018; Nasa plans a deep-space practice mission, to rendezvous with a captured asteroid, by 2025.

Regarding force design and operating methods, they wrote: "In his book, 'Break the [Phalanx] (sic),' [Macgregor] advocated simultaneously abandoning the systems of divisions and brigades and replacing them with … battle groups of about 5,000 men each… [The book recommends the adoption of] building-block methods according to wartime needs and put into practice mission-style group organization".

Frank flew further missions in Do 217 "D5+LK" on a target practice mission on 9 April 1943.

It had been renamed in honor of Dave Semple, a bombardier who was killed during a practice mission on March 7 , 1946