Sergeant Knighten, a barrel-chested Vietnam veteran with the stomach bulge of a middle-aged man, did not have the physique of a combat-ready soldier.
Others feature missiles and battle-ready soldiers.
"Khao Chon Kai" is set in an army boot-camp, where, amid much hilarity, young male recruits become battle-ready soldiers.
The Patriots on this base at Linkou, guarded by bayonet-ready soldiers, are a small fraction of the launchers parked at secret sites around Taipei, the capital.
Clews and his team are also behind Royal Marines Commando School, the current Channel 4 series about the commando training centre in Devon where raw recruits are turned into battle-ready soldiers in 32 weeks.
"U.S. military and political authorities who placed combat-ready soldiers in the volatile environment of Al-Falluja without adequate law- enforcement training, translators and crowd-control devices followed a recipe for disaster," the report said, adding that the unit had no tear gas or other tools for crowd control.
In other developments: Nato updated its estimate of Russian military strength along Ukraine's borders to 20,000 combat-ready soldiers.
Military commanders could conceivably use the sensors to identify the most alert and battle-ready soldiers to serve as the mission's point people.
Afghan National Army's easily recognizable Toyota pickup trucks carrying heavily-armed, battle-ready soldiers are as ubiquitous as the military camps from which they come and go.
Recently, the new Ukrainian defense minister announced that the country had a mere 6,000 combat-ready soldiers despite an on-paper strength of 41,000 troops.
The men and teenage boys we interviewed in displaced persons settlements and on the outskirts of insecure villages that have seen multiple LRA attacks do not resemble hardened militiamen or battle-ready soldiers.
