Sentence examples for reservists on from inspiring English sources

Then they opened the valves on nearly six thousand canisters of chlorine gas, releasing about a hundred and fifty tons of the chemical toward the two enemy divisions — one of French-Algerian soldiers, one of older French reservists — on the other side of no-man's-land.

Graph tracks total number of Air Force, Navy, Marines, Guard Members and Reservists on active duty since October 2001.

There are plans to put 6,000 army reservists on standby in case of attack, but the full quota will probably not be available before April next year.

It was not designed to maintain reservists on duty for either the tempo or the scope of current military commitments around the world.

Some reservists, on the other hand, are feeling no financial pain because their companies go beyond the requirements of the law to compensate them.

A brother, Antauro, a former army officer, led an attack by 150 army reservists on a police station last year, killing four officers.

The Navy assigned him to a project, with a reservist on leave from Accenture, to reorganize the SEALs reserve force.

Staff Sgt. Jesse Childress, 29, from Thornton, Colo., was an Air Force reservist on active duty with the 310th Forces Support Squadron at Buckley Air Force Base, according to Air Force officials.

"Paradise isn't too strong a word," said Captain Sanger, 31, a Marine reservist on leave from his job as a lawyer in Manhattan.

"I see a soldier, a person," said Staff Sgt. William Eaker, whose mother, a nurse, is a reservist on standby for deployment.

His assistant was 2d Lt. Harris Hull, a reservist on temporary duty for the exercise who was a reporter for the Washington Post in civilian life.