Sentence examples for war stations from inspiring English sources

Britain itself was provocative; on 28 July, the fleet was ordered to "War Stations", before news of a Balkan war.

The decision to move the fleet to war stations on 28 July, a week before the German entry into Belgium, was a further potentially escalating step, for this measure, together with official assurances to France, encouraged the policy-makers in St Petersburg to believe that Britain would not shrink from supporting them in the event of a Russian war against Austria-Hungary in the east.

He spent the 1991 Persian Gulf war stationed in Hawaii.

Re: "A Few Chips Save Many Steps for Today's Surveyors" (Nov. 30), about surveyors' technology, including the "transit": I was a surveyor during the Korean war, stationed in Germany.

The Texas governor, who spent the years during the Vietnam War stationed in Houston with the Texas Air National Guard, made a point in his remarks to the veterans to allude to his father's military service overseas during World War II and to invoke Mr. Cheney's credentials as the defense secretary during his father's administration.

Swofford was a sniper in the Persian Gulf War, stationed in Saudi Arabia in 1990, where he experienced both boredom and violence.

Davenport was founded on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire and was named for his friend, George Davenport, a colonel during the Black Hawk War stationed at nearby Fort Armstrong.

He re-enlisted in the Australian Army during the Second World War, stationed at Victoria Barracks with the rank of sergeant.

The ship remained on the station until late August 1939, when the imminent start of the Second World War caused the Admiralty to order her to take up her war station with the Mediterranean Fleet at Malta.

On 29 July she sailed to the fleet's war station at Scapa Flow and began the patrols and training exercises that constituted the greater part of her service after the declaration of war on 4 August.

From the Romans with their lookout posts to the cold war radar stations at Fylingdales and Menwith Hill, the moor has always been a place to watch or listen for the enemy.