To personalize them, they used their battalion numbers or epigrams like "All gave some, some gave all".
The battalion, numbering more than 600 soldiers, received training under a $1.3 billion American aid package designed to stem drug production in Colombia and, in the process, cut leftist rebels off from their main source of financing.
The battalion numbered around 500 men in total.
The cavalry brigades formed a dismounted cavalry battalion, numbered after their parent brigades, so the 9th Cavalry Brigade formed the 9th Dismounted Battalion, for example.
Indeed the 400-strong Harel battalion numbered 16 dead and 79 injured, and the Yiftach an handful of dead and injured.
"Nato battalions numbering thousands of troops cannot be compared with Russian divisions numbering tens of thousands just across the border.
The forces assembled by the British were divided into two battalions, numbering about 1,700 men.
The militia battalions, numbered the 5th and 6th during the war, contrastingly deployed to South Africa intact late in the conflict.
However, of the division's four German battalions numbering 7,771 men before the invasion, Richter reported that the equivalent of only one battalion at 80 per cent strength remained.
Some of these battalions, numbered from 150 upwards, were formed by removing complete company's from experienced regiments then serving in Mesopotamia and forming new battalions.
