The phrase "a screening force" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to military, security, or organizational operations where a group is designated to assess or filter individuals or situations.
Example: "The military deployed a screening force to evaluate the incoming personnel at the base."
Alternatives: "a filtering unit" or "an assessment team".
To make up for the lack of long-range air cover, a screening force of destroyers and frigates was stationed ahead of the fleet to serve as radar pickets.
The Arab units in the north, they say, provide a screening force to hold the Iraq military in place, behind which American and British forces could maneuver for an attack.
Leaving only a screening force in the right centre near Goubellat, he moved the bulk of the IX Corps to the left centre, concentrated it behind the V Corps, and reinforced it with two divisions from the 8th Army the 7th Armoured and 4th Indian.
5,000 men of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and a screening force of around 150 tanks patrolled the Fulda frontier.
They were typically used as a screening force, driving off enemy skirmishers and disrupting enemy formations with javelin throws before retiring behind the lines to allow the heavier-armed hastati to attack.
Twelve hours after Hipper left the Jade, the High Seas Fleet, consisting of 14 dreadnoughts and 8 pre-dreadnoughts and a screening force of 2 armored cruisers, 7 light cruisers, and 54 torpedo boats, departed to provide distant cover.
This is the confrontation with Saruman, the sinister wizard, played by that formidably intelligent performer Christopher Lee - still a screen force - with grey hair permed out into long straight tresses, like a cross between Methuselah and Mary Hopkin.
Yamamoto detailed aircraft carriers and, battleships and — with four heavy cruisers and a destroyer as the screening force — under Nobutake Kondō to provide distant cover for Ke around Ontong Java in the northern Solomons.
But, she recently told the Senate Commerce Committee, the agency "may have difficulty maintaining a screening work force that possesses the critical skills needed to perform at a desired level".
Also under Turner was British Admiral Victor Crutchley's screening force of eight cruisers, fifteen destroyers, and five minesweepers.
After the initial sighting, the main invasion force, consisting of the heavy naval screening force and the two transports, remained elusive until the morning of 25 August.
