The phrase "combat theater" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the geographical area in which military operations, battles, and other combat-related activities take place. Example: The soldiers were deployed to the combat theater in the Middle East to support the ongoing war effort. In this example, "combat theater" is used to describe the specific location or region where the military operations are taking place.
"When you're in the combat theater dealing with enemy combatants who don't abide by the law of war, who do acts of indecency, soldiers become stressed, they become fearful," Campbell said.
"It's against protocol to date in a combat theater," she said.
There are highly significant medals (Silver Stars, Navy Crosses, etc)., and then there are lesser medals and campaign ribbons that some in the military joke are awarded for little more than breathing in a combat theater.
These space-rated solar cells are very lightweight but fragile, so the trick was finding a way to package them to stand up to the rigors of life in a combat theater.
Fifteen thousand Army Air Forces personnel died in training, stateside, without ever seeing a combat theater; at one point, an average of nineteen AAF personnel were dying stateside every day.
The current policy, signed in 1994 by Les Aspin, President Bill Clinton's defense secretary, drew the line at direct combat assignments, but rescinded the risk rule; by then, Operation Desert Storm had shown that anybody in a major combat theater was basically at risk.
Over the decades he has performed frequently for soldiers in combat theaters including Iraq and Afghanistan.
It's "Whistleblower: The Motion Picture," coming soon to combat theaters near you.
Few if any senior American officers have spent more time than McChrystal in the post-9/11 combat theaters.
"The versatility on display by the Air Force in combat theaters these past few years befits the greatest traditions of the force," he added.
She served from January 1942 until the end of the war, most often in combat theaters: Gomel, the winter Orsha offensives of 1943, Brest, Lodz, Prague, Warsaw, Krakow, and finally Berlin, where she was part of the famed 1st Belorussian Front attack group.
