Examples of 'saw active service' in a sentence

Meaning of "saw active service"

This phrase relates to military or armed forces personnel who have participated in combat or operational activities

How to use "saw active service" in a sentence

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saw active service
Only half of these saw active service.
Coventry saw active service shortly after launch.
He was there for about a year before he saw active service.
They never saw active service.
He saw active service in many military campaigns and was highly decorated.
The division never saw active service during the war.
Saw active service.
He never saw active service.
The design was not a success and none of the submarines saw active service.
He saw active service in France as a sergeant.
The regiment was raised quickly and soon saw active service in the Western Transvaal.
Ford saw active service practically the whole time he was in France.
The division was sent to North Africa but never saw active service as a complete formation.
He saw active service on the Frontier Waziristan operations.
He was posted abroad and saw active service in the Middle East.

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He saw active service in France.
His paternal and maternal ancestors saw active service in the American Revolutionary War.
He saw active service in the Crimean War after the fall of Sevastopol.
The tank landing ship never saw active service with the United States Navy.
He saw active service in India and Malaya.
The Second World War ended before he saw active service.
This variant saw active service in the Falklands.
As a soldier, he was engaged mainly in administrative work and never saw active service.
He first saw active service in Greece.
It was the only Italian ground-attack aircraft that saw active service in this role.
And Matthew Wellings saw active service in the war in the former Yugoslavia.
Shiroyama trained as a pilot for the Japanese Navy, but never saw active service.
He saw active service in Egypt and Palestine.
A professional soldier, he saw active service during both World Wars.
He saw active service in the Kosovo War.
In fact, he never saw active service.
He saw active service in South Vietnam.
It is not clear, however, whether they saw active service in the civil war.
He saw active service in West Africa.
Four companies of this battalion saw active service during the War of 1812.
He saw active service in the Second Boer War.
Examples of the Jumo 222 's were built in total, none of which saw active service.
He saw active service during the Malayan Emergency.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1944 but never saw active service.
Then he saw active service in the First World War.
He joined the 2nd Waikato Regiment, gained the Queen 's Medal, and saw active service.
It saw active service in France and on the Eastern Front.
Both were launched in 1916 and saw active service in World War I off the Belgian coast.
He saw active service in the Second World War and in Korea.
Jeffery Amherst first saw active service in the War of the Austrian Succession.
He saw active service on the Atlantic Coast and the Mediterranean Sea.
His father saw active service in the First World War.
Saw active service as a first lieutenant; Bundeswehr Reserve Captain.
Senior civil servant. Saw active service as a first lieutenant; Bundeswehr Reserve Captain.
He saw active service in the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross.

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