Sentence examples for battalion described from inspiring English sources

A member of the 3rd Battalion described Hines as "not normally a weak man but rather one... uncontrolled".

Manning a checkpoint just a few hundred meters from the annihilated facility, a bearded and unsmiling soldier from Ukraine's Sich Battalion described the night before.

With its steep sides littered by boulders, this flat topped hill was strongly garrisoned by a battalion (described as 300 rifles and a machine gun company of eight machine guns) deployed for general defence.

One Australian veteran, Sergeant Charles Lemaire, who had previously fought against the Germans at El Alamein with the 2/17th Infantry Battalion, described the Japanese as "tenacious, brave, self-sacrificing".

"The challenge now is keeping the keyboard alive," said Col. Robert Knapp, commander of the First Marine Division's headquarters battalion, describing the quantum leap in intelligence gathering, communications and control over air and artillery fire.

The cooperation with the Chetnik battalion was described in the IX SS Mountain Corps war diary as "effective".

We heard it first from the battalions who described how more and more Iraqis were coming forward to give information about 'bad guys', and how insurgents were reaching out to do deals.

Stuart Henderson, a sergeant in the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, described how he fired at two men no more than a foot away, whom he judged were about to kill him.

Blackader was attached to the 1st Battalion, under Thomas Pilcher, who described him as always "cheery and anxious to do his work"; he threw himself fully into the organisation of the force, and within six months of his arrival the battalion was able to be deployed successfully on operations against local slave-traders.

The Queen's visit came as a spokesman for the 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland described the death of three of the battalion's soldiers in Afghanistan on Tuesday as a "hammer-blow".

Eyes alight, Smith leaned forward and described how his battalion lost a paratrooper in the district of Sangin; he helped carry the flag-draped coffin onto a C-17.