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An embrace by the White House of a plan to take a combat brigade off the front lines could help to ease pressure from Republican lawmakers, including Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, who have called for a visible gesture to show that the White House is changing course.

Any strikes will nonetheless mark the first time the US has taken a combat role in Iraq since 2011 when President Obama ordered all American troops out of the country.

Chapman has said he does not remember calling out Lennon's name before he fired, but he claimed to have taken a "combat stance" in a 1992 interview with Barbara Walters.

You may have to compromise and take a non-combat job to get your parents to agree to let you enlist.

On Monday, Admiral Blair said the mission in the Philippines illustrated how in Asia, the United States military would support friendly governments fighting terrorists, rather than take a more direct combat role as it has in Afghanistan.

But now there are veterans courts who take a vet's combat experience into consideration.

Dimon did take a moment to combat his anti-regulation reputation, saying JPMorgan Chase backed "70percentt or so of Dodd-Frank," while also reiterating his support for policies that would wind down failing big banks, rather than provide them with federal bailouts.

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.

October 16, 2012 The story is that he will take up a combat role after Eid al-Adha (26 October), the Muslim holiday marking the end of the Hajj.

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.