Combat vs Casevac - What's the difference?
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A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat : "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= To fight with; to struggle for victory against.
* Milton
The emergency patient evacuation of injured people (civilians or soldiers) from a combat zone.
* 2001 , Kent B. Pandolf, R. E. Burr, Medical Aspects of Harsh Environments , Volume 2, Office of the Surgeon General (US),
* 2011 , Robby Carpenter, Shawn Carpenter, Ramiro Bujeiro, Force on Force: Modern Wargaming Rules , Ambush Alley Games, Osprey Publishing,
As nouns the difference between combat and casevac
is that combat is a battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory while casevac is .As verbs the difference between combat and casevac
is that combat is to fight with; to struggle for victory against while casevac is to perform the emergency evacuation of an injured person or people (civilians or soldiers) from a combat zone.combat
English
(wikipedia combat)Noun
The British Longitude Act Reconsidered, passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat .}}
Derived terms
* combat payVerb
- To combat with a blind man I disdain.
Anagrams
* ----casevac
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(wikipedia CASEVAC)Alternative forms
* casevacNoun
(en noun)page 1156,
- Rehearsal of representative CASEVACs' is invaluable in refining both operating techniques with the ' CASEVAC assets and coordination with the receiving MTF.[Medical Treatment Facility]
page 53,
- If a force has CASEVAC' assets available (medevac choppers, ambulances, an on-table aid station, etc.), then a unit may hand off its Casualties (and the associated penalties) by moving into contact with the ' CASEVAC asset.
