The SANDF is as always combat-ready for any assignment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address at the South African National Defence Force Day Parade] Reference

And getting combat-ready is no walk in the park for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2010] Reference

Even then, it would take years to get them combat-ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [BUSH DUMB ENOUGH TO ATTACK IRAN] Reference

It can take months to bring a unit to combat-ready status.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's Responsible for Iraq? We Are] Reference

The F-22 became combat-ready for the Air Force at the end of 2007.    From Wordnik.com.  [F-22 Fighter Jet Crashes on Test Flight in California] Reference

You still have 50,000, I assume, combat-ready troops in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 26, 2009] Reference

But there's also a question of taxing already-thin combat-ready units.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2006] Reference

I'm told that when they get off the plane they're going to be combat-ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2005] Reference

When you say tens of thousands -- Joe Biden said 4,000 really were combat-ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2005] Reference

LEVIN: Well, there are apparently 40 battalions which Allawi feels are combat-ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2005] Reference

That report also says only one of the 26 Iraqi army brigade headquarters are combat-ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 19, 2005] Reference

The Air Command was the implementation wing of the Air Force preparing combat-ready forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Additional fully combat-ready United States forces of that magnitude are simply not available.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2006] Reference

McINTYRE: Those are the two critical shortages, combat-ready ground troops and their equipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2007] Reference

And then there's the absolutely legitimate concern of sending all of our units out combat-ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks Of The President At Turkey Presentation] Reference

MCINTYRE: Those are the two critical shortages -- combat-ready ground troops and their equipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 26, 2007] Reference

How do these forces-America's combat-ready forces-and their support equipment get to the theater?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Testimony To the US House National Security Committee] Reference

One reason for the incremental escalation may be a basic lack of available combat-ready soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush's Latest Plan To Perpetuate His Bloody Iraq Failure] Reference

BLITZER: Condoleezza Rice said 50,000 of the 130,000 were police, so they're really not combat-ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2005] Reference

We recognise fully that a healthy mind and body is essential to the building of a combat-ready soldier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address at the South African National Defence Force Day Parade] Reference

Rename the surge troops to Iraq Peacekeeping Force and acknowledge that less than combat-ready is okay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: More Favor Congressional Defunding Of War Than Oppose It] Reference

Also, the need for MREs or other combat-ready meals may exist for members of the force on remote patrol.    From Wordnik.com.  [FM 7-98 Chapter 8 - Combat Service Support]

Therefore, a training program must hone those skills needed to meet the standards of a combat-ready unit.    From Wordnik.com.  [FM 7-98 Chapter 4 - Peacekeeping]

Al leaped to his feet, now in a fully alert, combat-ready stance, even though there was nothing here to fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Omnibus]

I argued futilely that since I had been assigned to a combat-ready outfit, I was eligible for transfer to Korea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will]

After a peacekeeping mission, unit commanders must plan refresher training to return units to a combat-ready status.    From Wordnik.com.  [FM 7-98 Chapter 4 - Peacekeeping]

The prospect might look improbable, but history informs us of the moral obligation to remain combat-ready at all times.    From Wordnik.com.  ["They're Not On Welfare"] Reference

Sending another 20,000 troops or so to Iraq leaves virtually no American combat-ready units anywhere else on the planet.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2007] Reference

They were scheduled to begin leaving Iraq in April and May, but they are one of the most combat-ready and experienced units.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2004] Reference

We should point out that nearly 30,000 American troops remain in South Korea, many of them in frontline, combat-ready roles.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 30, 2007] Reference

All of the combat-ready elements of the 65th Panzer Battalion were involved, as well as 2nd Battalion, 11th Panzer Regiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Panzer Aces]

MCINTYRE: Schoomaker was brought out of retirement by Donald Rumsfeld to remake the Army into smaller, more combat-ready units.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2006] Reference

It says the number of combat-ready unions is down, citing a lack of training and equipment, which is placing the nation at risk.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2008] Reference

Can the Pentagon create what amounts to a New Age warrior, combat-ready yet sensitive on the job and emotionally available at home?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shrinking The Military] Reference

The Democrats can name it that and pass the funding while recognizing that "combat-ready" is not needed for peacekeeping functions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quote Of The Day] Reference

It looks like his chances look very good that he'll have a measure on his desk by week's end to put this nation on combat-ready footing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2002] Reference

Before the peacekeeping mission, training was provided to prepare the combat-ready soldier to one that is constrained in all his actions.    From Wordnik.com.  [FM 7-98 Chapter 4 - Peacekeeping]

Anyone vaulting the fence would find himself knee deep in dagger-like Spanish bayonet, combat-ready cactus and the thorniest desert brush.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Night Crew]