Sentence examples for training for combat from inspiring English sources

After years of training for combat, we found ourselves actually in it.

In fact, he was, as Juan Martin puts it, "training for combat and planning the next stage of his life".

Among them are increasing spending on intelligence, assigning security experts to traveling ships and making training against terrorism as high a priority as training for combat.

Because of the endurance required and the injuries that had to be borne with fortitude it was considered excellent training for combat.

A more fundamental debate is needed, looking not just at time spent training for combat but also at factors like air and sealift capacity and the availability of appropriate equipment.

Three years later, he traveled with his pregnant wife to Fort Bliss, an Army post in Texas, where he was soon given command of 200 soldiers training for combat in Vietnam, where he expected to be sent.

Army officials have said he has trained for combat duties in Afghanistan, and may be deployed there in the fall.

Men and women trained for combat often deny having a problem; their psychological strength becomes their weakness.

Miller remained in Afghanistan for almost four months and did everything he trained for: combat, patrols, surveillance, negotiations.

Her new series was shot at the Marine Corps Air Ground Control Center in California, a desert outpost where marines train for combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger said he supported the president's aims but that it "would be a poor use of forces trained for combat" and "a logistical nightmare".