The speech reflected the issues within the military about the merits and costs of an all-volunteer force fighting two wars for nearly a decade, the longest sustained combat in American history.
Chiarelli, who taught political science at West Point and has advanced degrees in public administration and national security, experienced sustained combat for the first time in 2004, in Iraq, as the head of the First Cavalry Division.
Across 180 minutes of combined debate for New York's two Senate seats, the wars consumed all of 7 minutes and 20 seconds — 4 percent of the available time devoted to the country's longest period of sustained combat.
The Marines in Company K, the unit that had encountered the heaviest and most sustained combat since the operation began, swept a wide area of agricultural fields and small compounds, skirmishing with Taliban fighters as they moved.
In Washington, Jeffrey White, a former Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer and specialist on the Syria military, said Tuesday that sustained combat between government troops and the rebels had spread to nine of the country's 14 provinces.
Most obviously, perhaps, Ultron, artificial intelligence and villain of this sequel, appears to don the Hulkbuster armour from the Iron Man comics – Tony Stark's solution if sustained combat with his unpredictable ally becomes necessary.
From the two aircraft carriers that are the closest bases for American strike operations, and are now positioned near the Pakistani coast, some sites in Afghanistan can lie as many as 700 miles away, some officers estimated, an unusually long distance for Navy aircraft to conduct sustained combat operations.
The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of sleep disorders among soldiers who sustained combat-related traumatic brain injury.
After having downed three enemy aircraft on 11 August, Leutnant Nowotny carried out three victory passes over the airfield, despite having sustained combat damage to his own Bf 109 "Black 1".
The study population included 1,133 US military personnel who sustained combat-related injuries in Afghanistan from June 1 , 2009 through August 31 , 2011
