Sentence examples for small combat from inspiring English sources

The U.S. is shutting down three hundred bases across Iraq, most of them small combat outposts.

He deployed as a machine gunner in early May 2009 to a small combat outpost in Paktika Province, at a time when American forces were extremely sparse in the area.

I feel that a chapter of my life is intrinsically linked with this relatively small combat zone in southern Afghanistan, and I feel that I have a connection with all those who have served there.

The presence of a small combat force is unlikely to affect the calculations of Hamid Karzai, who has proven himself more than willing to engage in conspiracy theories and attack the US, if it conveys a domestic political advantage.

In most of the cities, the small combat outposts created as part of the surge are being handed over to Iraq as Americans withdraw to large bases in advance of large-scale troop reductions.

UPDATE: Unassisted, the friend found a better-paying job, $4 instead of $2 an hour, but in a more dangerous locale, a small combat outpost in a Baghdad neighborhood.

But it's a welcome upgrade on the relatively small-scale combat seen previously.

For example, ancestrally in small-scale combat, a skilled fighter would be more likely to survive a war and bring his side to victory.

Its firepower was overwhelming and its ability to lose in small-scale combat just about nil.

At the same time, the 827th had trained with the expectation that the gunners would fire only on the direct instruction of their own officers, which limited both their ability to co-operate with outsiders and their willingness to adapt and improvise during small-scale combat.

When you add all three of these things together, it's hard to escape the impression that you could create a plausible account of small-scale combat by just using a list of randomly chosen countries to fill in the blanks: ISIS fighters from, using -made weapons obtained from, fought against Iraqi government and Kurdish forces (including volunteers from ) with air support from using -built jets.