Examples of use of ready about!
1. "This will be a bloodiest year for foreign troops." He said 2,000 suicide bombers were ready –– about 40 percent of the total suicide force –– adding numbers were so high it was sometimes hard to find enough explosives and targets.
2. And they are out –– all three of the brigades are operating. The capability to do independent COIN operations, we estimate those brigades will be ready about June of next year. In the meantime, they are all operating and fighting now at various levels of readiness. As could be expected, the lower–level units are very, very effective.
3. There would be picnics, small gatherings, games of P–I–G in the back yards of basketball–crazy Indiana, his wife and two daughters in tow at times, a riff at the ready about his decision from the start to avoid the negative tit–for–tat campaigns of presidential elections past.