With their supplies running out, soldiers began to desert the Afghan Army.
Those two vehicles were only found by chance, when an army unit conducting desert exercises happened upon them parked in a rocky wasteland.
McLelland previously had a 23-year career in the army, and participated in Operation Desert Storm.
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John had been in the Army for eight years, serving in Desert Storm and Bosnia, and had graduated from Penn State with a degree in history.
He was involved in Operation Desert Storm and was commandant of the U.S. Army War College.
The former intelligence chief said the Libyan army had little capability in this vast area of desert and there was a fear of confronting the extremists.
The UK's Middle Eastern moment appeared to be over, so when the Thatcher government rushed troops to Saudi Arabia in 1990 the British army had to announce that it no longer had desert pattern uniforms.
As the young man (played by Emile Hirsch) travels about, he attracts the interest of a South Dakota wheat farmer (Vince Vaughn, playing it straight), an aging hippie (Catherine Keener), and a retired Army man living on the edge of the California desert (Hal Holbrook), all of whom ask him to put down his backpack and stay.
They now bring groups through the desert, often along trails once used by Pancho Villa's army.
Mr. Henen, who has a doctorate in biology, is part of a little-known army of biologists and other scientists who manage the Mojave desert tortoise and about 420 other threatened and endangered species on about 28 million acres of federally managed military land.
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The Army group initially had some trouble testing the iPhone in the desert grounds, due to a problem many longtime owners of the popular Apple device know all too well.
The Bells were very rich: but it was not money that got Gertrude a First at Oxford, or helped her survive encounters with murderous tribes in the desert, or made her a spy or a major in the British army, or qualified her as poet, scholar, historian, mountaineer, photographer, archaeologist, gardener, cartographer, linguist, and distinguished servant of the state.
The Army intends to build a 500mw solar plant at Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert.
Nearly 2, 000 army personnel from Chad and Niger, with experience of fighting in the Sahara desert, are already helping consolidate the recent gains.
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With both Mr. Gadhafi and the Soviet Union off the stage, Chad's army has been wrapped up in the instability that at present troubles the belt of desert countries across the top of Africa.
As the Iraqi army swept through the country, it built an elaborate system of fortifications, destroying the fragile desert ecosystem.
Just 27 years before South Africa's Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu - 80 last week - was born, a German army commander was issuing orders, in writing, to exterminate Namibians, drive them into the desert and poison the wells.
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The army, which historically has preferred to give up power rather than risk civil strife, might then desert him.
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