Sentence examples for long combat from inspiring English sources

Most binge drinking is done immediately following a long combat deployment.

It had not moved an inch throughout the long combat we had waged on its behalf.

There is a shortage of trained manpower – hence the long combat deployments of up to 15 months for some "teeth" combat units.

But after a long combat tour, the soldiers have gleaned insights valuable outside their bloody little plot, including that Afghan insurgents are not supermen, as they are often portrayed.

"This is particularly relevant given our long combat mission in Afghanistan," he said.

Five month later following a long combat pause, JG 54 was moved to the south-east to counter the pro-British coup d'état in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

In Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, for example, millions of mines and dud bombs remain, and even in Belgium, long combat-free, crews have removed hundreds of tons of UXO, left over from WWI and WWII, in the past few years.

The incident occurred on the day Nato ended its 13-year-long combat mission and transferred responsibility for the country's security to the Afghan national forces.

Two-man crews from Whiteman Air Force Base here flew what officials say were the longest combat sorties in history this week, logging 44 straight hours in the world's most expensive aircraft, the B-2 bomber, to help open the attacks in Afghanistan.

Nato is set to end its decade-long combat mission in Afghanistan before the end of next year.

(The longest combat patrol of World War II was 225 days in length, this was achieved by Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat as commander of the).