Sentence examples for armor brigades from inspiring English sources

But at Fort Bliss, home to Army artillery and armor brigades, Mr. Hammond is not concerned with such commercial matters.

Now, under plans unveiled by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta on Thursday, the withdrawal of two heavy armor brigades will reduce the Army presence by 10,000 to just 30,000 troops, with a cavalry brigade still based in Germany and an airborne brigade in Italy.

We are sitting in the center of the city with almost an armor brigade right now, which is extraordinary.

Upon the brigade's arrival it engaged Israeli armor from Reshef's brigade in al-Galaa', Egyptian armor destroyed around 15 tanks and several half-tracks.

When the attackers entered the prepared killing zone, Egyptian armor of the 24th Brigade opened fire on the advancing tanks, complemented by infantry anti-tank weapons on either flank of the Israeli forces, while tank hunting detachments attacked from the rear.

A tank brigade that is being transformed into a Stryker Brigade will lose armor and punch, but it will gain agility, and therefore (the theory goes) operational relevance.

The brigade was acting without armor support.

As the brigade had no heavy or mechanized forces and only a few Humvees and an artillery battery, heavier forces were attached to it in the form of two companies of M113 Armored Personnel Carriers, M1 Abrams tanks, and M2 Bradleys from a task force of 1st Battalion, 63rd Armor, which was attached to the brigade.

Jared D. Robbins, a tank commander with the First Brigade's Third Battalion, 69th Armor.

Its vehicles will provide armor protection and battlefield mobility that a light brigade doesn't have; its artillery battalion's howitzers will give it more power.

They also told him that during the night of Oct. 5, the day hundreds of thousands of people came to Belgrade, burned the parliament building and pulled down the Milosevic regime, the brigade was ordered out of its barracks, with armor.