The phrase "assault battalions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in military contexts to refer to specialized units trained for offensive operations.
Example: "The army deployed several assault battalions to secure the area and engage the enemy forces."
Alternatives: "attack units" or "offensive battalions".
The assault battalions divided the city into areas and crisscrossed their assigned areas in an attempt to find the insurgents.
Once the 1st Battalion had taken up its position, the assault battalions moved through them towards the forward line at The Pimple.
Originally scheduled to land at 07:45 to the east of the 7th, the 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade's two assault battalions were postponed by 10 minutes as a result of heavy seas.
The loss of "situational awareness caused by the breakdown in communications," was complicated by a change in the "organisational architecture" of the infantry divisions, when assault battalions were added.
The initial assault battalions were quickly followed by 28 DD tanks and several waves of engineer and demolition teams to remove beach obstacles and clear the area directly behind the beach of obstacles and mines.
Nevertheless, in company lots, the 1st Battalion moved up and began filling in the gaps between the assault battalions, while engineers from the 2nd Field Company began the task of extending the tunnels from The Pimple towards the new Australian line.
Lance Corporal James McCue, 27, of 7 Air Assault Battalion, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, died after an explosion near Basra on Thursday, the Ministry of Defence said yesterday.
A former radical and World War I veteran of a motorcycle assault battalion with the Arditi, famous for deploying flamethrowers against their enemies, Valera has journeyed to the pinnacle of social and economic success on the backs of the peons he virtually enslaves in the remote rubber tree forests of northwestern Brazil.
He commanded an assault battalion during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
No. 4 Commando were in the second wave and landed behind the initial assault battalion, from the East Yorkshire Regiment, part of the 3rd Infantry Division.
Desperate to contain the Chinese breakthrough, Brigadier General Paik Sun Yup of the ROK 1st Infantry Division used the division's rear service personnel to form an assault battalion, but the battalion was unable to stop the Chinese advance.
