combat zone

The pilot explained that he usually wears his “to mount NVGs for night flying,” though occasionally “we will wear them during daytime in a combat zone to protect against debris should the cockpit take a direct hit.”

For groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS, the whole world is a combat zone.

In combat zones around the world, including Iraq and Afghanistan, Lt.

One of the fathers, Ostap, claimed that his son, after spending over 90 days in the combat zone, had a legal right to take leave.

I first met Michael in early May 2011, while I was in Washington on leave from the combat zone in Afghanistan.

I recognize that it's easier to criticize a battle plan from outside the combat zone.

Bales may have harbored hopes of getting out of the combat zone, perhaps by becoming a military recruiter, as Browne has said.

It is a disorienting shift, to put it mildly, to return home from a combat zone where people were actively trying to kill you.

The situation developed rapidly, probably because we had only six days before our scheduled departure into the combat zone.