Sentence examples for tested troops from inspiring English sources

After their victories in the Burgundian Wars, the Swiss had battle tested troops and commanders.

It would have asked for a data base to be kept on peacekeepers to track national efforts to monitor the rate of infection with AIDS and test troops.

It was so bad that during trials in the mid-80s the testing troops never used it, using a US-made magazine instead, because the British magazine caused the rifle to jam up to five times more often.

And while clearly punishing for the Taliban, the clashes also test American troops and exact a civilian toll.

A team of British biologists conducting an inquiry into the long-term effects of depleted uranium weapons has called on the government to test British troops.

The army periodically tests its troops by sending out messages from fake social media accounts to see whether they are susceptible to entrapment.

Similar drills at indoor ranges have paper targets with pictures of guerrillas and civilians, testing the troops' split-second skills to judge friend or foe under fire.

Troops tested rocket launchers and riot police rehearsed their responses to violent protesters.

And even in the mix, which comes from baking mixes invented just before World War II, tested on the troops, fine-tuned and then marketed to the world by Duncan Hines, Pillsbury and General Mills 50 years ago.

Brave, trained and well equipped they might have been, but you can't help wondering if the 24th Regiment of Marines, whose soldiers have ordinary careers and normally only train at weekends, deserved to be hurled fresh into the cauldron of Falluja to do a job that tested full-time troops to the limits.

The exercise was designed to test US troop training, logistics, doctrine, and commanders and is considered a prelude to World War II.