Sentence examples for combat opportunities from inspiring English sources

They also gave black troops — segregated from whites and often tasked with support roles away from combat — opportunities to prove their mettle.

Munjed Farid Al Qutob, London Sexual violence and war Lara Stemple ("The hidden victims of wartime rape," Views, March 3) draws due attention to one of the infinite horrors of war — the unreported sexual assault of men — but ignores an enduring consequence of this silence: the degree to which the possibility of rape upon capture is used to justify limitations on combat opportunities for women.

In 2013 women became eligible for the same combat opportunities as men in the armed services.

When Obama announced his intention to seek new Congressional authorization for military force, John Boehner (who would apparently prefer more combat opportunities) warned that it was up to the White House to win support for the idea.

To combat such missed opportunities, she should be reminded by her advisers to pause for a moment before bringing up these people.

"They want to keep the doors shut". If elected, Cota and Garcia said, they want to improve educational opportunities, combat gangs and lure more businesses to town.

This decision initiated radical changes in the combat active service opportunities for women in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

The fact that Ed Miliband has been chosen in open electoral combat creates an opportunity for old feuds now to be buried, while the defeat of his older brother by the narrowest of margins creates the potential for a new one.

The drug war offered up a new evil to combat and an opportunity to restore faith that America's military might could be successfully used as a force for good.

Shame didn't come up by name in the comments, but it lurked in the insightful remarks of Lt. Col. Eric Mulkey (3), when he wrote that some soldiers, even those who have seen combat, want that opportunity "that very few are given," — "to do something truly heroic…something truly significant with their lives," such as "throw themselves on a grenade to save their comrades".

The program, which dates to the Vietnam era, was created to "provide members of the uniformed services serving in a designated combat zones the opportunity to build their financial savings," according to a Web site maintained by Defense Finance and Accounting Service, which provides payment services to the Defense Department.