Sentence examples for on a combat from inspiring English sources

Speaking to our colleague Mona Mahmood from a mobile phone, he poured scorn on the idea that Tlass might take on a combat role with the rebel fighters.

But the defence minister has insisted that this is simply to defend them from insurgent attacks, not a sign that Italy is to bow to pressure from NATO allies to take on a combat role.Dutch troops were until recently spared the worst of the violence.

I was technically jobless and that meant if we went to Iraq I would be forced to take on a combat role.

13, 2009 | BADAKHSHAN PROVINCE Incident Report: A Lost Drone Flying over southern Afghanistan on a combat mission, one of the Air Force's premier armed drones, a Reaper, went rogue.

As a final salute, female pilots of all generations took turns flying Harmon's burial flag across the country - across D.C. in an F-16 like the one Major Penney scrambled to defend our city on 9/11, on a combat maneuvering mission, and on commercial airliners -- it even went supersonic with a female pilot who took pulled 8.7 Gs with it just for fun.

Every point spent on one of those two skills was a point you couldn't spend on a combat skill.

He flew a Nieuport 23 fighter on a number of combat missions over Bulgarian-occupied Macedonia as part of Escadrille 387.

THE penalty shoot-out transforms football from a team sport to one-on-one combat, a showdown between kicker and goalkeeper.

This week, in another first, a woman is commanding a warship on its way to a combat zone in the Persian Gulf.

The proposed framework is verified using a one-on-one combat engagement simulation (written in C++) between two submarines.

During World War I, to his disappointment, Butler was not assigned to a combat command on the Western Front.