1.   Refreshments would be served in the salon, while the combatants donned their battle gear for the fray in the changing room.

2.   Armored personnel carriers with soldiers in full battle gear roared up and down war-ruined lanes.

3.   At an airport administration building, Russian commandos assembled in full battle gear early in the day, apparently ready to move out.

4.   Certainly, for Elena Gonzalez Hernandez, the sight of several dozen troops in battle gear arriving in the early morning revived the horror of the war.

5.   Enclosed by a heavy ring of soldiers in full battle gear, Jewish settlers paraded through Hebron in the Halloween-like costumes of the Jewish holiday of Purim.

6.   Guarded by British troops in full battle gear until recently, it was the de facto Craigavon frontline.

7.   His men were in battle gear, his snipers peered down from windows.

8.   Hundreds of people ran through downtown streets away from the menacing police as U.S. troops in battle gear stood just yards away inside the port facility.

9.   Hundreds of other troops in battle gear and camouflage were deployed in the jungle and the thick brush around the four camps.

10.   It was a towering Alaskan fur headpiece, reminiscent of Cossack battle gear.