Sentence examples for years of combat in from inspiring English sources

He endured two years of combat in Vietnam.

There are grave concerns within the military about the capability of the U.S. Army to sustain two or three more years of combat in Iraq.

During two years of combat in Europe, he said, his company of 212 riflemen shrank to 8 as its members fought their way through France.

But Mr. Obama's victory that year over Senator John McCain, a Vietnam War hero, was in part a result of an electorate weary from years of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Sadly, after more than five years of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration and the Pentagon have seen fit to award only two Medals of Honor to heroes in those combat theaters.

Nevertheless, with public support for the war dwindling, and with the military exhausted and stretched to the breaking point physically and psychologically after so many years of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, the president is ratcheting the war up instead of winding it down.

Matt McCue, a speaker at the fair, joined the Army after 9/11 and spent a year of combat in Iraq before attending UC Santa Cruz and later teaching agriculture in the Peace Corps.

Now, as we approach our 10th year of combat in Afghanistan, there are those who are understandably asking tough questions about our mission there.

"I spent eight years of combat duty in Mindanao" fighting Muslim rebels, one officer said, his voice rising as he spoke.

Most of the 9,500 UK troops in Afghanistan are expected to be withdrawn by the end of 2014, when 13 years of combat operations in the country are set to cease.

Not only have the missions and goals in both Iraq and Afghanistan shifted over the years of combat, Ms. Schake said, but in advance of D-Day, the United States government summoned "thousands of economists and captains of industry" to plan the occupation.