Sentence examples for support commanders from inspiring English sources

Admiral McRaven dismissed assertions that the most highly trained Navy and Army commando teams should be reserved solely for the most high-profile missions; he said they were regularly assigned to support commanders of units in a local area of combat if that contributed to the overall mission.

He strove to improve army air cooperation with new tactics and the appointment of Colonel Martin Fiebig as a special close air support commander.

In addition to his responsibilities as air support commander, Raw was also the commander of the RAAF units stationed at Vũng Tàu and the overall deputy commander of the RAAF force in South Vietnam.

In May 1966 Raw was posted to South Vietnam as the air support commander for the 1st Australian Task Force (1 ATF), which had recently arrived in the country as part of an expansion of Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War.

Chairman Poettering reiterated the role played by our President in supporting Commander Massoud.

I hope he will support our commanders and do the same for Afghanistan.

Clearly, the Bush administration is happy to support those commanders on the ground who back its policies but if they stray away from that it's curtains.

Only men in the armed forces had the slightest chance of effective counteraction, and the conspirators had to keep trying to win the active support of commanders in key positions.

In exchange for their support, American commanders agreed to channel $1 million in development projects directly to the tribal leaders and bypass the local Afghan government, which is widely seen as corrupt.

DIA agents also support combat commanders worldwide.

The division's logisticians and support unit commanders will have to ensure not only that the American brigades are fully supplied, but that the thousands of African Union troops working alongside the Americans (and whose armies have little logistic capability) also receive basic supplies.