After three days, the Americans said they controlled over 70% of the town, for the loss of a dozen troops.
During the war, the workhorse helicopter for the United States military was the Bell UH-1 series, better known as the Huey, which came in various configurations, most of them capable of carrying about a dozen troops.
The Kobani reinforcements, led by a small vanguard of about a dozen troops, are expected to eventually number about 150, providing badly needed assistance to the city's defenders.
Associated Press reporters on the road to the government-controlled town of Artemivsk saw several dozen Ukrainian troops retreating with their weapons from Debaltseve.
We were a big green patch of nature's glory from Paraiba; we were a few dozen troops among thousands.
The interviews recount, at times in great detail, how roughly a dozen French troops stationed in Bangui alongside African Union troops, and prior to the deployment of UN peacekeepers, raped and sexually abused starving and displaced children in exchange for food.
Harold Cabunoc, commander of the Philippine forces at Basilan's Camp Cabunbata, where about a dozen American Special Operations troops will soon be based (most of the American troops will stay on safer ground off Basilan).
The Marja operation has claimed the lives of a dozen NATO troops so far.
More than a dozen government troops have been killed, according to Aung Din, the head of the U.S. Campaign for Burma, an advocacy group based in Washington.
A dozen Lebanese troops blocked visitors who wanted to see the border area, where the pop of gunfire could still be heard among apple orchards.
