Exercise can help 'combat' the effects of stress.
They have been 'combating' the rebels for months.
Some of these soldiers have never seen 'combat'.
(..) Or at least the whisper goes so Our last king was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway... ...thereto pricked on by a most ambitious pride, dared to the combat In which our valiant Hamlet did slay this Fortinbras Who, by a sealed compact, did forfeit with his life all those his lands... (..)2015 Hamlet