Sentence examples for armor divisions from inspiring English sources

Because speed may be crucial and infrastructure may be sparse, those ground forces will need to be more mobile than the heavy armor divisions that took months to deploy for the 1991 war with Iraq.

This, and mainly heavy losses sustained by the German armor divisions forcing their way to the Myshkova river, forced Manstein to reconsider continuing the offensive.

The delayed deployment of the heavy armor division left the United States relying on a skeletal force in northern Iraq.

The cautious and methodical Middleton was in command of two infantry divisions and two armored divisions within his corps, and the impatient and audacious Patton could not understand why Middleton was not moving his armor quickly in pursuit.

In contrast with the 1991 Persian Gulf war, women now fly combat missions and serve on fighter ships, though they are barred from submarines, Special Forces and the Army's infantry, armor and artillery divisions.

There were still lingering tendencies to reserve Germany's armor, even if in independent divisions, to cover an infantry advance or the flanks of advancing infantry armies.

It will be more heavily defended, even though the division has no armor.

After initially encountering resistance from armor of the German Herman Goering Division, the division advanced, supported by paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division who landed inland on 11 July.

As Iraqi armor rushed south to reinforce the battered divisions, they unwittingly rumbled into what one senior officer called "a meat grinder," as waves of A-10, F-16, F/A-18 and F-15E strike planes blasted away.

Armor training was a responsibility that the division continued after the war.

During 1903, the ship was converted into a coal barge by the removal of her turret, her side armor, and its wooden backing, and by the division of her hull into three holds.