Maintenance required for the ship, and the training required to keep the crew combat ready, are also essential considerations that have been studied and refined over the history of aircraft carrier operations.
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"I think our culture instinctively teaches us to take care of women and we won't be combat ready, " said the pub's owner and a former Navy SEAL, Greg McPartlin, who is a Bronze Star recipient.
Pistorius might have been on edge, but we in the body corporate sent out endless nagging e-mails to our far less combat ready complex dwellers urging them to lock their doors, close their windows, and set their alarms at night.
Our remaining troops -- I might add, as combat ready, if need be, as any in our military -- will advise and assist Iraqi forces, support partnered counterterrorism operations and protect our military and civilian personnel, as well as our infrastructure.
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South Korean soldiers stand with fists curled at their hips in a combat-ready mode borrowed from taekwondo.
This is part of the transition plan, and ISAF will remain combat-ready until the end of 2014.
As chief of Kostrad, a key combat-ready unit, Prabowo would have been the only one able to take charge.
The first contingent of 100 military police officers arrived at Louis Armstrong International Airport late Thursday -- combat-ready for immediate deployment in New Orleans.
Though Homs has been the site of urban combat for two years, the soldiers -- from the front line to checkpoints -- appeared largely combat-ready.
What really exposed European weakness was the difficulty many allies had in raising a handful of combat-ready troops for peacekeeping in Kosovo, once the bombing had had its effect.
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The day after "W." accepted his party's nomination, Clinton Pentagon press spokesman Ken Bacon and General Hugh Shelton, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were mustered out to dispute the governor's assertion that two of the Army's divisions were not combat-ready.
Washington (CNN) -- Several dozen combat-ready U.S. Marines stationed in southern Spain have been put on alert to potentially move into Libya and assist in the evacuation of American personnel if the unrest grows there in the coming days, a senior military official confirms to CNN.
Phillip Mitchell, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, estimates that the 7th Armoured Brigade won't be ready for combat for at least six weeks, though British paratroopers and commandos will be ready sooner.
At this time last year, there were only a handful of Iraqi battalions ready for combat.
In the war of ideas, the U.S. has to be ready to combat the lies and slander that its enemies hurl at it.
We will draw upon the courage and skills of our sisters and daughters, because women have proven under fire that they are ready for combat.
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We will draw upon the courage and skills of our sisters and daughters and moms, because women have proven under fire that they are ready for combat.
We will ensure equal treatment for all service members, and equal benefits for their families - gay and straight. (Applause.) We will draw upon the courage and skills of our sisters and daughters and moms, because women have proven under fire that they are ready for combat.
"The current situation means we're accepting the risk that combat airpower may not be ready to respond immediately to new contingencies as they occur, " Hostage said in a statement.
The plan is being described as analogous to contingency combat forces, like the Ready Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which is always on standby to deploy within 18 hours.
Do this again for weapons and armor, and your character is ready to head into turn-based combat.
Returning grounded units to be ready for missions will require additional funds beyond Air Combat Command's normal budget, according to Air Force officials.
We wanted you to know that we stand ready to lend the authority of our experience as ground combat commanders to you, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and others in making the case against the clearly defective landmine treaty now taking shape in Oslo.
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Once the Iraqi forces are "reliable, battle-ready, " they will displace U.S. heavy combat forces, he said.
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As the US builds a coalition to combat terrorism, it must remember that including states that are themselves sponsors of terrorism, or ready to tolerate it, carries a heavy price.
Ground combat can, and should be, left to the Bosnian and Croat forces who are more than ready to defend their homelands and to secure the liberation of those areas currently under brutal Serbian occupation once the current disparity between the firepower available to the aggressors and to their victims is corrected.
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