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place a resource or resources (such as troops or equipment) in position to take action
- In more than a decade as a SEAL, I didn't have a break, just a steady drumbeat of combat deployments.p. 296.2
- After thirteen consecutive combat deployments, my war is over.p. x.0
- Before leaving, I wanted to try and explain what it was that motivated us through the brutal SEAL training course and through a decade of constant deployments.p. x.2
- On September 11, 2001, I was on my first deployment as a SEAL, and as Osama bin Laden's name was mentioned I figured my unit would get the call to go to Afghanistan the next day.p. 3.6
- For the previous year and a half, we'd been training to deploy.p. 3.7
- To them, I was a SEAL and it was only logical that we would be immediately deployed to Afghanistan.p. 4.1
- We were talking about the end of this deployment and making plans for my time at home before the next deployment.p. 4.2
- We were talking about the end of this deployment and making plans for my time at home before the next deployment.p. 4.2
- For the last ten years, I had deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, and to the Horn of Africa.p. 5.9
- After a six-month deployment throughout the Pacific Rim, and a combat deployment to Iraq in 2003-2004, I was ready for something new.p. 17.1
- After a six-month deployment throughout the Pacific Rim, and a combat deployment to Iraq in 2003-2004, I was ready for something new.p. 17.2
- I'd learned about DEVGRU during my first two deployments.p. 17.3
- Since September 11, 2001, DEVGRU operators had been on a steady cycle of deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, targeting al Qaeda and Taliban commanders.p. 18.8
- Before you can screen for Green Team, you need to be a SEAL, and most candidates typically have two deployments.p. 19.1
- The deployments usually mean the candidate has the necessary skill level and experience, which was needed to complete the selection course.p. 19.1
- I was in the middle of my SEAL Team Five deployment to Iraq when I finally got the news.p. 24.7
- He had three deployments, and he was one of the few East Coast guys with any combat experience.p. 33.7
- At that time, only West Coast teams had deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.p. 33.8
- Steve had deployed to Bosnia in the late 1990s and his team got into a firefight, one of the few before September 11.p. 33.8
- The individual squadrons were in a constant state of flux as they rotated from deployments overseas to months of training and then months on standby, during which a call to deploy could come at any time.p. 37.5
- The individual squadrons were in a constant state of flux as they rotated from deployments overseas to months of training and then months on standby, during which a call to deploy could come at any time.p. 37.5
- SEALs are deployed around the world at any given time.p. 37.8
- Our squadron was getting ready to go on standby and then deploy to Afghanistan.p. 38.3
- Some of my teammates from Green Team were already packing their gear and deploying as brand-new assaulters with their respective squadrons.p. 38.4
- A few weeks before we were scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan, I printed out the packing list.p. 41.1
- It was 2005 and I was preparing for my first deployment to the central Asian country.p. 41.2
- While I was at SEAL Team Five, my only combat deployment had been to Iraq.p. 41.4
- I didn't want to make a mistake on my first deployment by not packing something, so when I saw my team leader in the team room, I asked him about the packing list.p. 42.2
- "You've been a SEAL for six years, and you don't know what you need on deployment?"p. 42.7
- Dude, what do you think you need to bring for deployment?p. 42.8
- My squadron didn't want my first deployment to be with Delta, so I spent some time acting as a floater working with my troop in Afghanistan.p. 46.6
- Everything felt and smelled the same as my first combat deployment to Baghdad with Team Five in 2003.p. 46.9
- Just before we deployed, boxes of new stuff had shown up in the team room.p. 50.9
- At the end of the deployment, I flew back to Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina, where Delta is based.p. 65.4
- They treated me like a brother during the deployment.p. 66.2
- The squadron was just returning from its deployment in Afghanistan.p. 66.4
- Compared to my trip to Baghdad, their deployment had been relatively slow.p. 66.5
- In December 2006, we were deployed to western Iraq.p. 67.1
- It was my third deployment at the command.p. 67.1
- Even though I'd been to Iraq twice before, this third deployment was different.p. 68.7
- On my previous deployment with Delta, several of their guys were killed when they entered a house and got ambushed by a fighter hiding behind a sandbag wall.p. 74.6
- When we weren't deployed, we trained all over the United States.p. 80.8
- While I was with Delta on my 2005 deployment to Iraq, Phil successfully led a HAHO jump in Afghanistan.p. 86.3
- Since I'd joined the command, I'd rotated between Iraq and Afghanistan, deployment after deployment.p. 86.5
- Since I'd joined the command, I'd rotated between Iraq and Afghanistan, deployment after deployment.p. 86.5
- Things had fallen into a pattern of deployments, training, and standby.p. 86.5
- We were rapidly gaining combat experience with each deployment.p. 86.6
- Getting personal time off was a huge feat since my squadron was on standby and could be called to deploy anywhere in the world with an hour's notice.p. 87.3
- He was awarded a Silver Star on the last deployment.p. 95.3
- After the Phillips rescue, we returned home, trained for several months, and then deployed on schedule to Afghanistan.p. 99.5
- It was our first mission on this deployment, and we were still getting used to the altitude.p. 100.2
- It was a good night's work and a great start to a lively deployment.p. 103.2
- If we weren't deployed, we were training to deploy.p. 103.5
- If we weren't deployed, we were training to deploy.p. 103.5
- We'd alternate deployments between Iraq and Afghanistan.p. 103.5
- We were too busy doing our normal deployment, training, and keeping the wheels on the bus at home to think of much else.p. 103.9
- When we're gone eight to ten months out of the year on training or deployment, they always ended up being the last priority.p. 104.1
- We knew the risks on deployments and in training.p. 104.6
- The funny thing was, even when we were on leave before a deployment, I'd see guys at work.p. 106.9
- We came in to work on gear, work out, or just take care of last-minute issues before we deployed.p. 106.9
- I was on my eleventh consecutive combat deployment in 2009.p. 107.2
- It was a summer deployment, which meant we were busy.p. 107.7
- In a previous deployment in Iraq, he had hunted down an Iraqi sniper who was shooting Marines.p. 111.8
- We never found Bergdahl on that deployment, and as of the summer of 2012 he was still a prisoner.p. 114.1
- We had about three weeks left on our deployment.p. 117.7
- Charlie had volunteered to come over for the last couple of months of the deployment and was running with my team.p. 120.2
- We were coming up near the end of deployment, and this might be our last chance to hit such a juicy target.p. 121.9
- It had already been a solid deployment, despite Phil getting wounded and one of the dogs being killed.p. 122.1
- After constant deployments since September 11, 2001, to one desert country or another, I had grown to appreciate the simple things like a nice green lawn.p. 139.7
- The last deployment, for the most part, had been slow.p. 139.9
- Winter deployments often were, as fighters moved back into Pakistan to wait for warmer weather.p. 140.0
- When we returned from the last deployment, he transferred over to Green Team to be an instructor.p. 140.3
- The average guy had at least a dozen deployments.p. 140.8
- On the last deployment, we were slapped with a new requirement to call them out.p. 141.5
- Often we recaptured the same guy multiple times during a single deployment.p. 141.8
- On my earlier deployments, they stood and fought.p. 142.1
- On more recent deployments, they started hiding their weapons, knowing we couldn't shoot them if they weren't armed.p. 142.1
- He had taken over the squadron before the last deployment.p. 143.7
- After a deployment, most guys just wanted to hide out.p. 144.2
- I had deployed with him for the past eight years.p. 147.1
- It was 2007 and I was on my sixth deployment.p. 149.9
- About midway through the deployment, the whole squadron was called back to Jalalabad from multiple bases throughout the country.p. 150.2
- This was the same way we always went on deployment.p. 181.6
- Almost all of us had double-digit deployments to J-bad.p. 186.3
- Each deployment we added to it until it looked like the patio of a fraternity house.p. 186.7
- The SEALs already on their scheduled deployment in Jalalabad got briefed on the plan during our flight over.p. 186.9
- It felt odd showing up to do this mission when everyone knew the squadron that was already deployed could have pulled it off just as well as we could.p. 187.9
- The selection was the same on every deployment: large trays of unripe dark orange cantaloupe and honeydew with an almost chemical green color.p. 200.1
- I'd used it in my last deployment.p. 203.8
- In all of my deployments, we routinely saw this phenomenon.p. 249.2
- Walt walked around the patio, passing around a box of cigars the NRA had sent him weeks before to welcome him home from deployment.p. 277.0
- I always stopped for a south-of-the-border fix on my way home from a deployment, usually in Germany.p. 284.3
- Since my first deployment as a SEAL and the attacks on September 11, I'd dreamed of being involved in the mission that would kill or capture Osama bin Laden.p. 295.7
- Like everyone at the command, my personal life suffered under the strain of deployments.p. 296.5
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