Sentence examples for reservist from inspiring English sources

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reservist

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A soldier who is assigned as reserved; after training, no longer in full active duty.

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Tom was desperate to be dutiful and presumably pleased when the reservist Yeomanry regiment he commanded was posted to Egypt.

The inspector general found that JIEDDO ordered analysts to investigate Yonathan Melaku, a Marine Corps reservist who was arrested in 2011 in Arlington National Cemetery on bomb-making suspicions.

In the IDF, which he served as a reservist for nearly a quarter of a century, soldiers are encouraged to improvise, lest they lose the initiative in the fog of battle.

In the Chicago suburbs, for example, Joe Walsh, an outspoken Republican lifted by tea-party activists to a 290-vote victory in a left-leaning district in 2010, seems likely to be sent packing this time by Tammy Duckworth, an army reservist who lost two limbs and the use of a third flying a helicopter in Iraq.

See articleA former navy reservist shot dead 12 people at a naval facility in Washington, DC, before he was killed by police.

Mr Brown is an army reservist, Mr Gomez points out, whereas he is a navy man.

The presidential plane was carrying a delegation to Katyn, to commemorate the mass murder of a previous Polish elite: the 20,000 reservist officers murdered by Stalin's NKVD in 1940.

One London-based reservist, who has completed an Afghanistan tour, wryly said his bosses regard him as comparable to a maternity risk.A recent survey showed that only 42% of regular soldiers who had worked with reservists saw them as professional.

During operations numbers will be boosted by paired reservist units providing up to one rifleman in three.

That would mean giving reservists more predictability in their lives a tall order in an age of global terror.The assistant secretary of defence, Thomas Hall, who oversees the reservist and National Guard operations for all military services, rejects suggestions that his forces are stretched thin.

But their surge in national opinion polls after the first leaders' debate may transform what has been until now a two-woman race between Labour's Sarah McCarthy-Fry, a minister in the Treasury, and the Conservative contender, Penny Mordaunt, who boasts of "a successful career in business and communications" and is training as a Royal Navy reservist.

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