Sentence examples for ground combat unit from inspiring English sources
Dispatched to Vietnam in May 1965, the 173rd Brigade was the first major Army ground combat unit to serve there.
The names of the Marines, members of the Second Marine Division, an expeditionary ground combat unit based at Camp Lejeune, N.C., have not been released by the military.
Its commandant is a separate member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and it fights both as an amphibious assault entity and as an essentially autonomous ground combat unit.
The United States has about 40,000 service members remaining throughout the Middle East and the Persian Gulf region, including a ground combat unit that was one of the last out of Iraq — and remains, at least temporarily, just across the border in Kuwait.
The brigade arrived in Vietnam in May 1965, the first major ground combat unit of the United States Army to serve in the country.
That probably reflects the central role of the infantry in the Marines, since women are barred from ground combat units.
Men headed into Army and Marine ground combat units, which exclude women, still train at places like Fort Benning, Ga., and Parris Island, S.C., without the distractions that Ms. Gutmann derides.
By fall 1971, President Nixon had withdrawn most ground combat units from Indochina, and radicals on campus and off were already lamenting the deflation of their "movement".
The Pentagon's decision to allow women into combat has set off new debate on whether women can perform the same dangerous and physically demanding tasks as ground combat units do, day in and day out.
The Army, which like the Marine Corps has excluded women from many jobs because of the physical demands or proximity to combat, is also studying ways to integrate women into ground combat units.
Although women have performed admirably in combat during the last decade, because they have not served in billets in ground combat units, their chances at promotion to general officer were still small compared to their male counterparts.
