The answer is to seek close combat, which never worked for the Americans.
— but at least it gestures in the direction of combat, which is embedded in the D.N.A. of sport.
The highest ranks don't reflect that yet, in part because of restrictions on women in combat (which are changing).
Women have "repeatedly proved their mettle in combat" — which is only surprising because women, supposedly, are not allowed in combat.
Until that week in March, we'd been the only brigade in the Army in actual combat, which is hard to imagine now.
But they can't hold approximately 200,000 jobs officially termed "combat," which often bring more pay and can provide a stepping stone for promotions.
The answer: Because of the Pentagon's ban on women in combat, which prohibited women from serving in Special Operations units like the Night Stalkers.
But the plaintiffs in the new lawsuit are younger and were all exposed to combat, which, their lawyers believe, may make their case more compelling.
They had aroused in Mr. Billson's soul that zest for combat which had been so sadly to seek in round one.
He developed his own tactics for aerial combat, which included installing a captured Lewis gun in his Fokker DVII that fired upward at a 45° angle.
The government had long insisted on a hard-line, zero-tolerance response, relying on police combat, which only increased the bloodshed.
