The phrase "a sortie for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to military operations, outings, or excursions, often implying a brief mission or venture.
Example: "The troops prepared for a sortie for reconnaissance in the enemy territory."
Alternatives: "an excursion for" or "a mission for".
Kim Jong Il came out to the Pyongyang airport to greet him, a rare sortie for North Korea's dictator even when he was less frail.
For Paradigm, Carmen de Lavallade's new "Sam's Party," whose title comes from Samuel Beckett's comment that to "dance first, think later" is the "natural order," starts out with a blithe sortie for three women in huge floppy-brimmed hats.
After a sortie to Addis Ababa for last week's AU meeting, followed by brief visits to Nigeria and Burkina Faso to drum up support there, Mr Ouattara is back in the country.
Happy Moscow, written in the early 1930s but only published for the first time in 1991, like The Foundation Pit, eschews linear narrative development for a sortie towards greater poetic truth.
By 1950, he was ready for a sortie to the old mountains of Europe, in the course of which he and his companions bagged many of the major summits of the Stubai Alps and the Bernese Oberland.
Ahead of the storm, the commander of United States Fleet Forces ordered all Navy ships in the Hampton Roads area to prepare for a sortie as Hurricane Sandy traveled up the East Coast.
Next, a level, sunken space behind the glacis, the covered way, was provided so that defenders could assemble for a sortie under cover and out of sight of the attackers.
After Bismarck joined the fleet, plans were drawn up for a sortie into the North Atlantic.
These included steaming out of the fjord and the appearance of preparations for a sortie into the North Sea.
The German High Seas Fleet would sortie for a raid on Sunderland, luring the British fleet across nests' of submarines and mine-fields".
