Sentence examples for needed for combat from inspiring English sources

She talked about going late one night to Walter Reed hospital to visit soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division who had been wounded in Afghanistan, and asking them if they'd had all the equipment and support they needed for combat.

This force, designated the Director Task Force, was concentrated at Goodenough Island where it was stripped of all equipment not needed for combat operations.

Additionally, a total of 530 2 pounder and 6 pounder anti-tank guns were required, but the Army had 1,941, while 68 3.7 inch anti-aircraft guns were needed for combat and five for training, but there were 640 pieces available.

According to a recent story in the New York Times, cadets at West Point are required to learn to box, because officials believe there is "no better way to teach the grit needed for combat, and to expose them to fear and stress and teach them a confidence to respond".

Both Republican and Democratic leaders on the Congressional intelligence committees are resisting the budget cuts and siding with the private companies and the military, which argues that it could not get as much imagery as it needs for combat operations without turning to the less expensive commercial technology.

They had cautioned against a larger 2012 withdrawal, saying it would deny them the combat troops they needed for two more full "fighting seasons" — this year and next — to consolidate recent gains against the Taliban.

FORT SILL, Okla., Oct. 23 — Adm. Mike Mullen invited candor from the Army on Tuesday, and he got it: questions from young captains frustrated by what they described as disciplinary problems in the ranks, shoddy health care for their spouses and children, and depots emptied of combat gear needed for training.

Moreover, these studies do not consider also the problem of the additional resources needed for relaying, and which we combat, in this study, using the afore-mentioned link adaptation.

But of course if Iraq is secured then the "combat brigades not needed for force protection" will be withdrawn.

According to Salazar's office the legislation would set "conditions that could lead to redeployment of US combat brigades not needed for force protection as early as the first quarter of 2008 if diplomatic, infrastructure, and security benchmarks are met".

We call on the United States to join other industrialized nations and make a significant commitment toward the $7 billion to $10 billion needed for the new global fund to combat this epidemic.