The phrase "airborne units" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to military units that are trained to be deployed by air, typically involving parachuting or air assault operations.
Example: "The airborne units were deployed to the region to provide immediate support during the crisis."
Alternatives: "aerial units" or "paratrooper units".
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 airborne units and Marines moved with orders to attack Iraqi command posts around Nasiriya, softening the way for more troops to move north up the Tigris and Euphrates rivers toward Baghdad.
And Major Howard's men sought to strike swiftly to prevent the Germans from blowing up the bridges if they were overwhelmed; the British needed those bridges to resupply their airborne units.
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.
Military officials said that another mission of the airborne unit would be to free the Third Infantry Division from its positions surrounding Najaf.
Others suggested the person or people responsible should be dropped from a plane without a parachute, or beaten by Airborne unit soldiers.
He was imprisoned by the Japanese and lost more than 50 pounds before being liberated by an American airborne unit in February 1945.
