His aircraft have even been used to shuttle supplies between American bases in Iraq, saving troops from having to make hazardous trips by land.
Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg, retired chief of the Pakistani armed forces, said in an interview that the Taliban made a strategic retreat to its base from the cities to save troops so they could fight again.
The calm and decisive leadership he showed in saving his troops at the Italian debacle at Custoza (June 1866) won him great popularity.
It is reckoned to have played a key part in the first Gulf war in 1991, saving US troops from getting lost in the desert.
But the report also asserted that improvements in battlefield medicine, evacuation practices and the armor and design of vehicles were saving more troops — and thus returning more survivors to the United States with serious injuries.
Jones got the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military award, but evidently many soldiers don't think he deserved it since his sally seemed mad and futile, accomplishing nothing, either in saving fellow troops or capturing a position.
To most Americans, drone wars are popular, of little concern, and save our troops from engagement.
Mr. Browne said the use of British ground troops in the fighting was ordered "in extremis," suggesting that the deployment of forces from the British base at Basra was a last-ditch measure to save Iraqi troops.
At the convention, Mr. Khan spoke about how his 27-year-old son, Humayun Khan, an Army captain, died in a car bombing in 2004 in Iraq as he tried to save other troops.
When they ran to save our troops lives, they didn't think about such labels.
We were unable to save these troops because we didn't withdraw them, and as a result we simply lost them..
