Sentence examples for combat specialty from inspiring English sources

Numbers dwindled significantly during the grueling 10-month training and testing regimen, particularly among the women who were serving for the first time in a ground combat specialty, since most primary war-fighting jobs are closed to women outside of research purposes.

Combat specialty occupations were associated with more favorable mental health and physical health for Reserve/National Guard men, but only more favorable mental health for active-duty men.

While 30 percent of those surveyed over all predicted that repeal would have some negative effects, 40 percent to 60 percent of the Marine Corps and those in various combat specialties said it would be negative.

The first page should come from Defense Department manuals outlining the "combined arms fight," which emphasize the leveraging of various combat specialties and coordinate a number of specialized units in support of the same action.

The airman, who in her spare time is a competitive weight-lifter, has her eye on one of the soon-to-open combat specialties, such as pararescue.

Whatever their combat specialties may be, all Marines receive basic infantry training so that they can operate flexibly in fast-moving campaigns.

By January 2016, each branch of the military the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines must open up its combat specialties to females or ask the Secretary of Defense to keep the gender restriction on certain jobs.

Let's remember that in most militaries less than a quarter of the troops serve in combat specialties yet all troops (except mainly medical and chaplain personnel) are typically fully targetable under international law.

The Army has opened up six combat specialties.

The Marine Corps started the experimental mixed-gender task force last fall at Camp Lejeune, N.C., and later at Twentynine Palms and other California bases to help the commandant decide whether women should be accepted into ground combat specialties now closed to them — including the infantry, artillery and tanks.

Cohort members who were older, serving on active duty and in combat specialties were significantly more likely to respond to the open-ended question across all panels.