Warnings are more immediate, such as the deployment of units, in combat formation, near national borders.

They filed out of the tunnel in combat formation.

He developed a structure for the post-war Army that included regular combat formations.

"I want combat formations manned at 100 percent," he said.

In 2003, three Corps still existed, each including various combat formations and a maintenance brigade.

Estimate five minutes before the group is in combat formation.

The better each man knew where he fit into the combat formation, the better.

In the event this proved correct, and the 39th evolved into an exemplary combat formation.

Under his leadership, the basis of the Army's later success as a combat formation was laid.

Here was a field commander with so much war experience-denied command of a combat formation.