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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a field radio" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a portable radio designed for communication in outdoor or military settings.
Example: "The soldiers relied on a field radio to stay in contact with their command during the mission."
Alternatives: "portable radio" or "tactical radio".
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Colonel Walker registered a complaint with the soldiers' headquarters over a field radio.
Every evening, the young officer in charge of Spera, First Lieutenant Paul Corcoran, spoke for a few minutes with his Pakistani counterpart over a field radio.
He wore a pakul and green military fatigues with a gold-white-and-black scarf around his neck, and he carried a field radio.
On a field radio we can hear one of the fighters loudly demanding in Arabic that somebody bring him some drinking water.
After a minute, the private came back in with a bared machete at his side and a field radio on his back.
With the firefight under way, one of Suran Dara's villagers dashed across the border into Afghanistan carrying a field radio with a long antenna (the villager called it "a Motorola") to deliver to the Taliban fighters.
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One of them is an electromagnetic effect in close proximity to the phenomenon, where cockpit instrumentation are affected -- it might be a magnetic field, radio interference or even an inertial effect, and that's obviously unsafe.
Over a crackling field radio came reports of injuries and then, sometime later, official confirmation of the first fatality inflicted by a roadside bomb on an MRAP, the new Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected armored vehicle that the American military is counting on to reduce casualties from roadside bombs in Iraq.
After a few minutes, Marouf received a call from Qassem on his field radio saying that he and his men were pulling out.
A few days later, they tried again: After a few minutes, Marouf received a call from Qassem on his field radio saying that he and his men were pulling out.
Halim Shah Qadiri was excitedly relaying the news of a new surrender negotiation through his field radio.
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