The tanks and other armored vehicles could guard long convoys that would carry United Nations troops and equipment out of Bosnia.

(Much of the unit's mission involves guarding convoys of supply trucks from Halliburton, driven by highly paid civilians.)

They were constructed between 1813 and 1815 to guard against the threat of French and American raiders attacking convoys assembling offshore.

She guarded convoys of troop transports to midocean meeting points with escorts who had come out of English and French ports to meet them.

The escort vessel arrived at Eniwetok October 6, 1944 to begin escort duty between that atoll and Ulithi, guarding convoys composed mainly of tankers.

Later in the war, escort carriers proved their worth guarding convoys crossing the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.

In September she guarded convoys carrying occupation troops from the Philippines to Japan.

During this time, she made one voyage from Brazil to Gibraltar, guarding convoys whose tankers carried the fuel essential to the operations in the Mediterranean.

Routed on to San Pedro Bay, Philippine Islands, she began the important task of guarding inter-island convoys.

After sailing across the Pacific guarding convoys, Cogswell arrived off Okinawa on 27 May 1945 for dangerous and demanding duty as radar picket until 26 June.