Not the way I'd want to take a ship into combat.
The young men had been quite willing for him to lead them into combat.
It is the reason that air power should still be tried before they are sent into combat.
There are worse things to go through than training for a war but not being sent into combat.
It happened, sometimes, the first time a man went into combat.
"It makes so little sense that I don't even go into combat with him."
These were men he would go into combat with, at least once.
Flying into combat was all part of a day's work for them.
He had never gone into combat asking himself that question before.
"We probably had a better idea of their ability to go into combat than they did."