Sentence examples for running convoys from inspiring English sources

Like scores of other tasks — running convoys, flying helicopters and tracking incoming mortar fire — the military will soon leave the job of determining the fates of the missing largely to civilians.

The students at Kit Young's music school were running convoys of trucks to the delta; in one refugee center, children had drawn pictures of the night when the world seemed to be ending.

"Killing Taliban is like fixing trucks, eating, running convoys.

"But from time to time he's on the road running convoys, [and] he's armed.

As the threat to shipping declined, the RAN ceased running convoys in waters south of Newcastle on 7 December 1943 and Sydney Brisbane convoys ended on 10 February 1944.

Even if a Soldier never encounters an IED, firefight or other defined "stresser", certainly walking patrols, running convoys or door-gunning a Chinook helicopter requires a state of long term hyper-vigilance that undoubtably effects the mind.

One night in South Carolina, Murphy finds himself "running convoy" with nine other trucks.

These are multimission ships capable of running convoy operations, doing sea control and protecting the SLOCs.

Bus companies might run convoys of self-piloting coaches down the motorways, providing competition for intercity railways.

Support soldiers are also receiving added training for military operations in urban areas, which includes drills in how to enter a building held by hostile forces and to run convoys through contested territory.

The UN were running regular convoys, I could have tried to hitch a ride.