Fighter and bomber crews would be unable to maintain full combat readiness.
Gen Mustafa al-Sheikh, the highest-ranking defector so far, has estimated the regime's combat readiness as having fallen to "40% for hardware and 32% for personnel".
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Shelton said that the two divisions referred to by Bush had reported not being ready for war but that the Army had "jumped right on top of that" and brought them back to combat readiness.
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This was my problem with the Leviathan DLC: by the time it came out, I already understood both the mechanics of the narrative and the specific impact of war assets and combat readiness on the ending of the game.
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This step has been made absolutely necessary by roughly a decade of under-investment in the uniformed services, a practice that has seriously degraded the maintenance, training, and modernization activities critical to the combat readiness of today's military -- and tomorrow's.
Faced with a mounting struggle to maintain the combat readiness of its aging fleet of F-14 Tomcats, F-4 Phantoms, MiG-29s, and Mirage F1s, access to F-16 technology for reverse engineering (as Iran appears to have done with downed U.S. drones), would be very much welcomed by Iranian commanders.
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The problem for Malaysia is that the rival parties have been at such a high pitch of combat-readiness for such a long time that the resulting partisanship is poisoning national politics.
According to the Pentagon, the rating did not reflect the combat-readiness of the divisions, but the fact that they were already deployed and therefore could not be counted in the "first-to-deploy" units the Pentagon might send to fight two major wars simultaneously.
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At a minimum, it seems safe to say that the case for an impending man-induced climate catastrophe is wholly inadequate to justify any significant reduction in the readiness and future combat capabilities of the U.S. military.
"Even a six-month stand down of units will have significant long-term, multi-year impacts on our operational readiness, " Air Combat Command spokesman Maj.
Most importantly, what evidence is there that repeal of the 1993 law will strengthen and improve the combat capability, discipline, morale and overall readiness of the All-Volunteer Force?
At the time, Sanchez noted that the Army was struggling to maintain even those relatively low readiness rates and warned he could not ensure sustained combat operations could continue if the problem was not fixed.
It has a serious readiness problem and has massive unfunded bills for repairing equipment damaged in combat, adding more troops to its ranks, and finishing its modular force conversion.
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