21.   But in the combat zone, the kontraktniki are valued only slightly higher than raw recruits.

22.   But outside combat zones, they are supposed to stay above the minimum altitudes established by local regulations.

23.   But outside the Kremlin combat zone, it looks like a slush fund.

24.   But Senator James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, said the deployment of ground troops into the combat zone had already begun.

25.   But the action in Buffalo will be like a combat zone.

26.   Cardboard packets inside the rations themselves are torn in half and turned into postcards, mailed at no cost since troops here are in a combat zone.

27.   Eppler has been flying for six years, but this was her first experience in a combat zone.

28.   For all, it is their first duty in a potential combat zone.

29.   GIs took up to three pyridostigmine bromide pills a day in combat zones where Iraqis were believed to have stocks of soman, a fast-acting nerve gas.

30.   He still takes prescription medication to quell bad dreams and has managed to forget whole stretches of his time in the combat zone.