Sentence examples for extended combat from inspiring English sources

The men and women who serve in Iraq and Afghanistan have made many sacrifices over the last seven years, including repeated and extended combat deployments.

The intention to provide extended combat roles for women stirred some furious responses.

We've responded to the troop shortage by putting an unfair burden on the force we have: multiple, extended combat tours; inadequate dwell-time between deployments; abuse of Stop-Loss orders and the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR); and overextension of the National Guard and Reserves.

But Mr. Obama's approval of their deployment seemed to be another sign of gaps in NATO's ability to carry out complicated, extended combat missions without continued and significant American support.

After the long, sad experience in Iraq, and the worst economic shock since the Depression, they are not up for extended combat and endless nation-building in Afghanistan.

Once the rigorous introduction to the chief protagonist and arch villain are set through extended combat, once the gritty dystopic landscape is rolled out, then we are presented with a fairly standard back story.

QUESTION FROM DARIN: What's your take on the legality of extending combat operations beyond 60 days without Congressional approval?

Otherwise the president would have had to extend combat tours yet again, mobilize more reserves or bring back the draft.

In order to reduce infrared emissions and extend combat radius, there are no afterburners providing supersonic capability.

It will have to extend combat tours, shorten the intervals between them and perhaps, as a last resort, increase the stipulated 24 months for which the National Guard and the reserves may be deployed.

Pentagon officials have not explained why the public release of the report was delayed, a move that kept the data out of the public debate as the Bush administration developed its plan to build up troops in Iraq and extend combat tours.