The phrase "army detachment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a smaller unit or group of soldiers that is part of a larger military organization.
Example: "The army detachment was deployed to the region to assist with peacekeeping efforts."
Alternatives: "military unit" or "troop contingent".
Thereafter other buildings were erected on the island, and the first permanent army detachment was garrisoned there in 1859.
In Boston, a small British army detachment that was threatened by mob harassment opened fire and killed five people, an incident soon known as the Boston Massacre.
A small army detachment, only a dozen-odd men, has been based in Konna, a small village set amid fields; beyond is some 40 miles of no man's land, and then the town of Douentza, held by the Islamists.
In "Making Good" (1993), an Army detachment taking inventory of property stolen by the Nazis stumbles into a strange conspiracy when its members uncover a cache of paintings by Klee, Kokoschka and other banned artists.
Other demands include the freedom to fly the flag used during Armenia's brief independence, from 1918 until 1920, when the Armenian Republic came under Soviet rule; the right to open consulates in countries with large Armenian populations, and the creation of an Armenian army detachment so that young men from the republic can perform their military service on home soil, using their own language.
Anderson's first assignment after induction into the service during World War II was to be production stage manager and first sergeant of the This Is the Army detachment.
They traveled more than 400 miles, managing to defeat or elude the various Army detachments sent to bring them back (more than 10,000 soldiers were employed for this task).
A seven-strong army artillery detachment has also visited Saudi Arabia to advise land forces on targeting and "weapons-locating radar".
A team led by Kai Leung, of the US army dental research detachment in Great Lakes, Illinois, believes the product will prove a great help to 21st-century workaholics who cannot be bothered with such a trivial routine as brushing teeth.
Kitbuga and his Mongol army, a small detachment of about 10,000 men, were lured into a trap at ��Ayn Jālūt ("Spring of Goliath"), near Nazareth, in Palestine, by a Mamlūk force commanded by Quṭuz, with a vanguard force led by Baybars.
Howe finally issued orders, and while most of his army waited, a detachment of British and Hessian troops was sent to take the hill.
