Sentence examples for length of combat from inspiring English sources

The length of combat tours has become a point of stress for Army troops, as well as a significant point of friction between Army personnel and marines, who rotate out of Iraq or Afghanistan after seven-month tours.

Yet this modest reduction merely returns the length of combat tours to their previous 12-month duration and still forces the US defence department to violate its own deployment policy.

Zombies are deadlier when fought in close combat, but each zombie killed in close combat extends the length of the combat, allowing the player to kill more zombies and score more points.

We analyzed habituation effects across the length of the Combat and Matched-neutral blocks (84 trials each) by comparing average RTs during each quarter of the blocks: "First quarter" (trials 1-21), "Second quarter" (trials 22-42), "Third quarter" (trials 43-63) and "Fourth quarter" (trials 64-84).

Facing Decline in Recruits, Army May Shorten Tours Projecting a sharp decline in recruiting and troop retention, the Army is weighing plans to cut the length of its 12-month combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, senior officials say.

The most recent version of the legislation, called the Montgomery GI Bill, provides a fixed monthly stipend based on length of service, deployment in a combat zone, and whether the service member was in the regular ranks or the reserves.

"The findings from this study are not consistent with the assumption that specific deployment-related characteristics, such as length of deployment, number of deployments, or combat experiences, are directly associated with increased suicide risk," the authors, based at the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego, wrote.

The two groups of combat veterans had similar mean numbers of deployments/total deployment lengths: combat veterans with LOC 1.43±0.06 deployments (range 1 4 deployments)/81.4±3.2 weeks (range 40 208 weeks), and combat veterans without LOC 1.76±0.25 deployments (range 1 4 deployments)/90.8±12.0 weeks (range 40 208 weeks).

I am sorry that no mention was made of Studs Terkel, whose oral history "The Great War" discussed the brutality of combat in general, and in the Pacific in particular, at some length.

Their primary arguments center on the points a draft would cause greater deliberation before entering a conflict, shorten the length of engagement due to public pressure, and provide relief to an all volunteer army during extended periods of combat.

He was dressed in combat gear, carrying a length of rope and had a knife in his belt.