Sentence examples for facing combat from inspiring English sources

Facing combat, he decided that he could not kill and became the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.

Sitting outdoors in the pulsing desert heat in midafternoon, Major Patterson and Major Hoffman said it was normal for soldiers facing combat to also face fear and stress.

By Vincent Canby There was nothing Bob Hope loved more than an audience, and audiences responded in kind, particularly soldiers facing combat who desperately needed a laugh.

Still, given the depth of the medical problems facing combat veterans, as well as the medical system's heavy reliance on drugs, few experts expect the widespread use of multiple medications to decline significantly anytime soon.

But someone listening day after day to troops describing the tension and carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan could end up as damaged as those facing combat at first hand.

Among the United Nations troops facing combat was an American quick-reaction force, a 1,100-member team mostly composed of soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division, based in Fort Drum, N.Y.

Most of the rebels had never faced combat.

The policy amounted to official stigmatizing and showed a lack of gratitude for some who faced combat fire.

They faced combat at 30,000 feet in a B-17 or at 30 fathoms in a fleet class submarine.

The soldiers, many of whom had not faced combat, joked about being killed, the sort of black humor that prevails in combat.

Japan has said it will send troops to Iraq later this year, and for the first time since World War II Japanese troops might face combat.