Fighter and bomber crews would be unable to maintain full 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.

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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.

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"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.

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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?

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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.

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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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