1.   Pike was a grizzled combat veteran in charge of fifteen green recruits.

2.   Ultimately, this work covers issues that combat veterans of any modern war would quickly recognize.

3.   A combat veteran himself, he could not believe the balderdash he was hearing from whippersnappers with no war experience at all.

4.   Atsits, a tough old combat veteran of four Israeli wars, barely survived the suicide bombing now known as the Passover Massacre.

5.   Both Shelton and Zinni are Vietnam combat veterans, belonging to the same military generation as Powell and Schwarzkopf.

6.   A combat veteran well versed in GI lingo, Mailer can rightfully claim to have invented a new F-word.

7.   A Navy combat veteran from World War II, Stump chairs the House Committee on Veterans Affairs.

8.   About two-thirds are combat veterans, he said.

9.   Afghanistan is still rife with warlords and combat veterans prepared to take the law into their own hands.

10.   Already, seven Vietnam combat veterans serve in the Senate.