Sentence examples for a small combat from inspiring English sources

He deployed as a machine gunner in early May 2009 to a small combat outpost in Paktika Province, at a time when American forces were extremely sparse in the area.

The presence of a small combat force is unlikely to affect the calculations of Hamid Karzai, who has proven himself more than willing to engage in conspiracy theories and attack the US, if it conveys a domestic political advantage.

UPDATE: Unassisted, the friend found a better-paying job, $4 instead of $2 an hour, but in a more dangerous locale, a small combat outpost in a Baghdad neighborhood.

Democratic Senators Carl Levin of Michigan, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Jack Reed of Rhode Island are putting together a proposal that would call for American troops to play a smaller combat role and are trying to win the support of Republicans like Ms. Snowe.

According to Afghan and American officials, Sergeant Bales walked off his small combat outpost in a rural area of Kandahar Province in the early hours of March 11 and shot and stabbed at least 16 people, including 9 children and 4 women.

The U.S. and other NATO nations have built and maintained hundreds of military bases in Afghanistan, from the massive air bases at Bagram and Kandahar to small combat outposts manned by a handful of troops.

I feel that a chapter of my life is intrinsically linked with this relatively small combat zone in southern Afghanistan, and I feel that I have a connection with all those who have served there.

The U.S. is shutting down three hundred bases across Iraq, most of them small combat outposts.

In most of the cities, the small combat outposts created as part of the surge are being handed over to Iraq as Americans withdraw to large bases in advance of large-scale troop reductions.

Lieutenant Colonel Miska, for his part, described the security plan as an attempt to get Americans off the big bases and into Iraqi neighborhoods, where they would occupy small combat outposts on the fault lines of sectarian conflicts and, for the first time, make the protection of civilians a central goal.

But, as an MoD review made clear last year, the key concern about allowing them to participate in small combat teams is the potential negative impact of "gender mixing": that, to put it in lay terms, emotional bonds between members of the opposite sex could undermine high-pressure operations.