Sentence examples for battalions on from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile an attack by one of the 18th Brigade's mechanized infantry battalions on al-Galaa', at 5 00 PM, failed with heavy losses and ten tanks were then allocated to the brigade.

It is unlikely that NATO officers would advise Afghan battalions on the battlefield.

"But the problem is that the Supreme Military Council is not a good representative of the battalions on the ground".

They certainly have a large number of Russian forces, 10 battalions, on the border of eastern Ukraine".

The American forces are attached to Philippine battalions on the island, where Abu Sayyaf, a militant Muslim group, has held an American missionary couple, Martin and Gracia Burnham of Rose Hill, Kan., for 10 months.

Gen. Emmanuel Teodosio, said the six-month operation with the Americans would start in early February with a 12-man American team assigned to each of the eight Philippine combat battalions on Basilan.

The 28th Brigade faced one of the two forward regiments the 571st Regiment which was deployed with one battalion on Hill 355, a second battalion astride Hill 217 and Hill 317, and a third battalion in reserve to the west.

The Army has only one civil affairs battalion on active duty.

In order to exploit the victory in the Battle for Henderson Field, Vandegrift sent six Marine battalions, later joined by one U.S. Army battalion, on an offensive west of the Matanikau.

All but one of the victims were raw conscripts, part of a battalion on a training exercise.

He landed in Marseilles with his battalion on the last day of November 1914.