Sentence examples for troops serving as from inspiring English sources

The 68,197 contractors — many of them Afghans — handle a variety of jobs, including cooking for the troops, serving as interpreters and even providing security, the report says.

The disease was introduced into Haiti by Nepalese troops serving as U.N. peacekeepers, whose sewage ran into a nearby river in the Artibonite Valley.

In one recent example, Syrian forces backed by U.S. Special Operations troops serving as advisers were able to take back the Tishreen Dam, a strategically important hub whose capture is expected to put pressure on the militants in Raqqa.

Taliban forces retreated so swiftly that American Special Operations troops serving as liaison to the rebels and spotting targets were struggling to keep up, limiting their ability to identify new targets.

The unit drew personnel from the special police forces and a former French Foreign Legion troops serving as its core.

Analysts have estimated the number of U.S. troops serving as trainers and advisers in the long term could be as high as 20,000.

General Artemas Ward, commander in chief of the Massachusetts troops, served as the senior New England officer.

The report says that the Russian troops serve as the most capable strike force against the Ukrainian army, adding that "rebel formations have in essence been used as cannon fodder".

As of 2011 an additional 350 troops serve as part of the NATO-led ISAF force in Afghanistan and another 20 with the KFOR in Kosovo.

Chechen troops serve as military police there, and Kadyrov has met with Syrian leadership in Damascus and used his charitable foundation to rebuild a mosque in war-ravaged Aleppo.

+ Proportions based on numbers of Army NG and Army Reserve troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan as of January 2 , 2008