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  • adjective Not involved in, or designed for combat

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Examples

  • Women technically may be serving in what they call noncombat roles but they are very vulnerable to post traumatic shock syndrome.

    CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2009 2009

  • [...] 104 have been killed in Iraq and 43 have been killed in what they call noncombat related incidents and of that 43, there are 15 of them that when you look at the cases you think, "Mmm, there's something really strange."

    The Common Ills 2009

  • [...] 104 have been killed in Iraq and 43 have been killed in what they call noncombat related incidents and of that 43, there are 15 of them that when you look at the cases you think, "Mmm, there's something really strange."

    Trina's Kitchen 2009

  • In two weeks Marcone, Pecina and thousands of comrades in arms, brother soldiers and Marines -- and not a few women in so-called noncombat roles, like Jessica Lynch, the POW rescued last week -- performed a truly memorable feat.

    The Grunt's War 2007

  • Five killed in combat, two in so-called noncombat-related incidents.

    CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2007 2007

  • Monday of injuries suffered in what the military describes as a noncombat incident.

    WHIOTV.com - Local News 2010

  • The Defense Department says Spc. Jacob Dohrenwend of Milford died in Balad in central Iraq on Monday of injuries suffered in what the military describes as a noncombat incident.

    Army Times - News 2010

  • A 29-year-old Fort Lewis soldier on her second tour of duty in Iraq died Wednesday in what the Department of Defense is calling a noncombat incident, according to a news release issued Friday.

    The News Tribune Blogs newstips@thenewstribune.com (MATT MISTEREK; The Ne 2009

  • The promises for our "noncombat" role are as thin and vacuous as the now long-forgotten promises of Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle -- remember them?

    Stanley Kutler: Our Enabling Media 2010

  • The promises for our "noncombat" role are as thin and vacuous as the now long-forgotten promises of Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle -- remember them?

    Stanley Kutler: Our Enabling Media 2010

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