No rescues were necessary on this sortie, and the crew and plane returned to base safely.

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Well-timed, well-armed peacekeeping missions, such as Britain's sortie into Sierra Leone, can cost hundreds of millions.

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Its payload and array of munitions will permit it to destroy numerous time-sensitive targets in a single sortie.

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Every weekday when most of us are still sound asleep, they assemble for another sortie, ready to take away what we throw away.

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With 50-to-100 hours of endurance per sortie, the system can conduct broad-area persistent surveillance-attack operations from outside the range of enemy missile threats.

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On what turned out to be his last sortie he was shot down and ended up spending six years as a POW with the Vietcong.

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Iraqis did not launch a single sortie against coalition forces.

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Even so, for safety reasons, their dives were strictly time-limited, and each sortie saw a quick scramble to net as many different fish as possible before the required slow ascent to the surface.

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Anyway, here's what Bill made for dinner one week after bringing home his cookbook, having waited until an afternoon when I was gone so that he could conduct a stealth sortie into the kitchen: Oven-Roasted Tri-Tip.

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Back to the Republican sortie against QE2.

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