Sentence examples for airborne unit from inspiring English sources

In December the 173rd US airborne unit is due to train with Latvian troops at a former Soviet military base.

Stichweh served in vicious combat with an airborne unit from the spring of 1967 to the summer of 1968.

Others suggested the person or people responsible should be dropped from a plane without a parachute, or beaten by Airborne unit soldiers.

Military officials said that another mission of the airborne unit would be to free the Third Infantry Division from its positions surrounding Najaf.

He was imprisoned by the Japanese and lost more than 50 pounds before being liberated by an American airborne unit in February 1945.

Sergeant Prosser's father, Brian, who had once served in an Army airborne unit, told The Bakersfield Californian that he was not troubled that his son had been killed by an American bomb.

High readiness for some immediate airlift to Europe of U.S. airborne units would be politically and militarily meaningful.

Several of the infantry units, including marine and airborne units, were staffed with lean and fit young men who marched with bearing and precision.

Though he has jumped from planes nearly 300 times and commands some of the world's foremost airborne units, General McNeill admits he finds parachuting "unnatural".

One platoon, the 1st, lost almost a third of its fighting strength: not quite D-Day levels, where airborne units were halved by combat, but getting close.

Army officials declined to say which units might be sent to the region, but the Army Special Forces Command oversees an area of elite troops, including the 75th Ranger Regiment, and other airborne units like the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, the 528th Special Operations Support Battalion and the 112th Special Operations Signal Battalion.