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  • Luckily we saw the advice of the arrival of an important consignment of clothing from Stalag XVIIIA, which will permit of the re-equipment of a large number of prisoners.

    Work Camp 10030 GW, Lavamund 2010

  • At the outset of their present defence review, the French admitted that their forward re-equipment plans were unaffordable by over 40 percent.

    A matter of understanding Richard 2008

  • I think one can thank the Conservative government's military re-equipment actions for our high import rank now if only we would import some naval vessels--but can you imagine the Conservatives, much less the Liberals, boasting about Canadian arms exports?

    UK tops US as arms exporter, Canada high on import list 2008

  • And while he did lead a re-equipment of the Canadian Forces, his prime thought was to connect and make Canadians understand the perils of service.

    On Canada Day we also acknowledge... 2008

  • Not only did we lose £48 million in the process (a conservative estimate) – this also set back the re-equipment plans, which became subsumed into the Future Rapid Effects System Programme.

    Nothing in the middle Richard 2006

  • While many pundits have sought to define the tenure of departing Chief of the Defence Staff, Gen. Rick Hillier ready to keep Rockin', in the oblique forms of masterminding our Afghanistan role or the re-equipment of the Canadian Forces, such opinions miss the essence of the man.

    On Canada Day we also acknowledge... 2008

  • In response to that – after a series of false starts, which included a programme of adding armour to the standard utility vehicle, the Humvee – the US, led by the US Marine Corps, started a re-equipment programme using vehicles based on Rhodesian and South African experience, specifically designed to deal with the IED threat.

    The wrong kind of war Richard 2006

  • Therefore, what we are seeing is Browne telling us that, beyond unspecified "additional armoured options" and the new and dangerous Pinzgauer – which is a troop transport rather than a patrol vehicle – the MoD, uniquely, does not see the need for re-equipment.

    The conspiracy continues Richard 2006

  • What I am saying is that the continuous redeployment of men and formations to Iraq (without the benefit of adequate replacements, re-equipment, or training) will break the American military as surely as Stalingrad broke the Wehrmacht.

    Stalingrad On The Euphrates 2007

  • It seems that if the Germans had postponed Barbarossa another year, they would have run onto the teeth of a Red Army that had completed its post-Finland reorganization and re-equipment plan.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

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