With international combat forces set to withdraw by the end of next year, such attacks are now used more for targeted killings and less for supporting ground troops.
The U.S. military has become heavily dependent on orbital systems and their supporting ground networks to connect far-flung forces, collect vital intelligence, detect missile launches, provide precise navigation information, and monitor weather conditions.
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As of this morning, FEMA has more than 400 personnel already on the ground supporting the response, including three national Urban Search and Rescue Teams, an Incident Management Assistance Team, as well as personnel focused on helping survivors register for and receive the federal assistance made available by the major disaster declaration signed by the President on Monday night.
It includes ground troops with supporting artillery, amphibious assault vehicles and light armour, plus transport and attack helicopters and perhaps AV-8B Harrier jet fighter-bombers, capable of taking off and landing vertically.
Politically, he stood on the middle ground: fundamentally conservative (supporting the Nicaraguan contras, school prayer and guns) but bravely outspoken, especially as a southerner, on civil rights.
The designers buried the foundations deeply, so that the piers supporting the bridge would shoot up from the ground like "blades of grass, " Mr. Foster said, with no apparent support.
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Set limits with your children if you plan on helping them or supporting them until they get their feet on the ground.
He has also prepared the ground with the unions, which are supporting the company, and with local government, so that job-retraining programmes can start quickly.
The Navy now has 13 maritime prepositioned ships (MPS) divided into three squadrons, each capable of supporting a brigade-sized Marine Corps air-ground task force for 30 days.
On the ground, it means seeking out and supporting some of the most innovative ideas and people to develop a new kind of impact, an impact whose form may change very quickly as conditions change around them.
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We saw it in the campaign to get corporations to withdraw from the American Legislative Exchange Council, a pro-market organization of state legislators that found itself branded racist for supporting state voter-ID and stand-your-ground laws.
Substitute Richard Haughton made ground from deep and, as Gloucester's defence tried to regroup, the supporting Simpson finished off with a flourish.
Never willing to cede too much ground to dedicated devices, the smartphone world has also gotten into the act, with Windows Phone 8 supporting a special class of camera apps Microsoft has burdened with the confusing name "Lenses" (not to be confused with the City Lens app from its close partner Nokia).
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