Sentence examples for old combat from inspiring English sources

Tamilchelvan walks with a limp and the help of a cane, on account of an old combat injury.

She threw on three layers and an old combat jacket of Nick's, salvaged a knitted hat malodorous with scalp sweat from the boiler room, and slammed the front door.

With jutting beards, old combat jackets and narrowing eyes, they were identified by other diners as members of the "resistance," still working, other diners said, for the restoration of their fallen idol, Mr. Hussein.

Dressed in a baggy polo shirt and a pair of old combat trousers, small but physically imposing, Bailey flirted, flattered, insulted his subjects in order to get the picture he wanted.

For all the intramural sniping, the old combat sergeant admits he enjoys the extra political notice and power that seems to come with the vice-presidential speculation, however fruitless it may prove.

The premise behind the old combat vehicles, he said, "was belied by the close-quarters combat, urban warfare and increasingly lethal forms of ambush that we've seen in Iraq and Afghanistan".

Lt. Gen. Dan K. McNeill, a 55-year-old combat veteran of Vietnam, the Gulf war and Panama, relieved Maj.

PAGE A7 NATIONAL IRAQ WAR CLAIMS Its Oldest Combat Casualty On Sunday, Maj.

For many younger Americans, however, as well as for older combat veterans, the US military is the welfare state – and a source, however temporarily, of jobs, housing, health care and education.

At the time of his death, at the age of 112, he was recognized as the oldest combat veteran ever, the oldest male ever recorded in Mississippi and the second-oldest man and World War I veteran in the world.

It seems odd that bare knuckle, the oldest combat sport of them all, is generally regarded as just something that happens exclusively in Guy Ritchie films and on Gypsy sites.