Maybe the combat leader would have a better feel for what it meant than he did.

Shaftoe knows in his bones that this guy is not going to be a good combat leader.

Suddenly the real problems of being a combat leader hit home.

This neglect meant a lack of combat leaders later in the war.

"I believe that the service academies no longer exist purely to train combat leaders," he said.

Göring felt a younger generation of combat leaders would help motivate the force.

He was an excellent administrator and organizer, but his true talents turned out to be as a combat leader.

It might be another for officers conditioned to pushing paper to change into combat leaders.

Attrition by 1942 had created a shortage of experienced combat leaders.

And now, confound it, I'm going to be a dashing combat leader at last.