Sentence examples for a support battalion from inspiring English sources

The United States military currently contributes headquarters staff of more than 30 troops, a support battalion of some 300 regular Army soldiers and a National Guard infantry battalion of more than 500 troops.

For Tim Sullivan, it has meant learning how to potty train, braid hair and fix dinner for his two young children while his wife, a sergeant in a support battalion to the 1-87, is deployed.

He was soon transferred to a support battalion, which eventually became the Labour Corps, and would never see frontline action, rather spending the war in the UK.

Although the Department of Defense bars them from taking part in direct ground combat, Lt. Col. Cheri Provancha, a commander of a support battalion in Mosul, Iraq, told the Washington Post that the Iraq war "has proven that we need to revisit the policy, because [women] are out there doing it... We are embedded with the enemy".

In 2005 she completed a 12-month tour in Iraq, where she served in a field medical unit as a specialist with a 29th Support Battalion medical company.

On Sunday Colonel Mamchar's men and women, from a technical support battalion, waited for the assault armed with little else than Kalashnikov rifles and light machine-guns, without body armour, behind defences that consisted mainly of sandbags which kept falling down.

A sustainment support battalion does just that -- it sustains and supports the troops.

These components included two infantry battalions, one armor battalion, one field artillery battalion, a combat engineer battalion and a support services battalion.

Mr. Norman, 35, now Captain Norman, commander of Company A of the 50th Main Support Battalion of the Army, has not been in school for a long time.

The battalion usually had three companies in the front system (which had three lines of breastworks called "Ia", "Ib" and "Ic") and one in the (intermediate) line (with a company of the support battalion, available for immediate counter-attack) between the front system and the (second) line on the ridge crest.

These permanent attachments include the 87th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, and a Special Troops Battalion.