"equipped to face" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express having the necessary skills or resources to deal with a challenge or situation. Example Sentence: She was well equipped to face the difficult decision she had to make.
Today's ethnic and faith community supremos are poorly equipped to face this task.
British troops entered Iraq equipped to face chemical warfare that didn't materialise.
"Either way, that learning must occur if a child is to be well equipped to face the ongoing dangers and challenges of adult life".
As we are so fond of saying, context is everything; whether we are equipped to face the different challenges of urban contexts is another question.
This country's meager tax take puts its economic prospects at risk and leaves the government ill equipped to face the challenges from globalization.
As for the hostile crowd, well, Cano was well equipped to face the Yankee Stadium music after receiving some boo training courtesy of NBC's Tonight Show.
Fertility preservation can best be provided by comprehensive programs designed and equipped to confront the unique challenges facing these patients.
"Deals like those announced today will ensure our economy remains resilient and our businesses feel well-equipped to face the future.
Not far away, hard by another statue of Stalin, is a refugee camp, where Georgian families driven out of South Ossetia are living in tents that look worryingly ill-equipped to face a Georgian winter.
"Eye of the Albatross" ends with an image of natural brutality that oddly enough inspires hope, because Safina makes clear that it is human dangers, not natural ones, the birds are ill-equipped to face.
Prosperity may belong now to those with internationally-marketable and scarce skills, as inequality grows between that elite and the others who face international competition for jobs, but who are ill-equipped to face it.
