Sentence examples for lead combat from inspiring English sources

Both leaders are now talking about American and British troops pulling back from their lead combat role by the middle of 2013.

Under this plan, American troops would step away from the lead combat role to a supporting mission focused primarily on counterterrorism and training Afghan security forces.

American forces would work closely with Iraqis in the most dangerous parts of the country, but would still take the lead combat role there.

As an advisory body, the Joint Chiefs of Staff do not lead combat forces and have no executive or command authority over troops in their services.

NATO was consumed by semantics for much of the day, but on Thursday evening, Mr. Panetta offered a general explanation of what putting the Afghans in a lead combat role would mean for American troops on the ground.

David Cameron and Barack Obama will meet on Wednesday to agree tentative plans for British and US troops to end their "lead combat role" in Afghanistan by the middle of next year.

He led combat patrols and economic development projects in Iraq.

Mattis, who declined to comment for this story, led combat troops in the early salvos of the war in Afghanistan in late 2001 and Iraq in spring 2003, before returning to Iraq a second time to lead bloody street fighting in the city of Fallujah in 2004.

As a commander, he led combat formations at squadron and wing level, becoming at 24 the youngest group captain in the history of the RAAF.

But when the Spanish-American War broke out, he resigned his position as secretary of the Navy and volunteered to put together and lead a combat group to fight the Spanish in Cuba.

One-third of the class went into the Special Forces, a highly selective assignment that can often lead to combat missions, Captain Stahl said.