Example sentences for: combatant

How can you use “combatant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In most cases, the chain of command authorizing the use of force runs from the president to the secretary of defense and from the secretary to the combatant commander.

  • Then they assign personnel and units to the joint combatant commander, like the commanding general of the Central Command (CENTCOM).

  • Gore served "as a reporter, not as a combatant," observed Fortune 's Jeffrey Birnbaum on Fox News Sunday . Gore "went to Vietnam, but as journalist, not as an infantryman," agreed USA Today 's Susan Page on CNN's Late Edition . Bush also points out that he tried to volunteer for a Guard program that sent several pilots to Southeast Asia.

  • The plans would assign operational responsibilities to lead agencies, such as State, the CIA, the FBI, Defense and its combatant commands, Homeland Security, and other agencies.

  • And, just as the combatant commanders also report to the secretary of defense, the directors of the national intelligence centers-e.g.


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