Many units spend time in the weeks or months before the actual event learning communications skills like ham radio and signaling.

Altogether the unit would spend almost a year assigned to Columbus.

The unit then spent the remainder of the month in action against Axis forces in the area.

The unit spent the first part of 1944 in intense basic, small unit, and special combat training.

He and his unit spent the last 12 days conducting exercises in Honduras.

Second, the longer a unit spent organizing its defenses, the longer the enemy had to ready himself for an attack.

The units spend two weeks on active duty in the summer.

Definitely better than the six months the unit had spent in the Sunni Triangle.

It said the unit would spend about $:50 million ($94.2 million).

The unit spent most of the summer training and recruiting personnel from the flight schools.