The phrase "actual fighter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize someone's genuine skills or experience in fighting, distinguishing them from those who may only claim to be fighters without the requisite experience.
Example: "In the world of mixed martial arts, being an actual fighter requires years of training and dedication."
Alternatives: "genuine fighter" or "real fighter".
They didn't want an actual fighter to represent the team, preferring instead the notion of fighting spirit.
After all, compared to training in the actual fighter jet, VR proved safer, equally accurate, more cost-effective and exciting.
"Whether the J-20 is an actual fighter prototype or a technology demonstrator, remains to become clear, and this will in part determine how quickly China introduces such a capability into service," Mr Barrie said.
However, during Donnerkeil, the relieving sortie would arrive after only 20 minutes which meant the actual fighter cover for half the dash would be 32 fighters.
All these 6-year-olds who know me from pushing my button and turning around in a big red chair who weren't around for the actual 'Fighter,' this is my chance to recharge it, rejuvenate it and do something modernized for them".
"The civic leaders are influential, but what we don't know is how much they control the actual fighters who are inside the city," he said.
In military lingo, they are weighed down by their "tooth to tail" ratio – a measure of the number of actual fighters in comparison to the support personnel and equipment the fighters require.
In interviews with actual fighters Marshall and his team found sentiments similar to "we could have gone in if we wanted to, but it didn't make strategic sense". These interviews centered on implicit codes of conduct which are not written but assumed to be existent.
The paramilitary demobilization ceremonies turned out to be filled with stand-ins rather than actual fighters.
There are very different attributes between the actual fighters and the little children in the camps.
He was a fighter, a real fighter.
