Sentence examples for brigades on from inspiring English sources

Planning for the offensive was undertaken over the subsequent weeks, with the final plan specifying that the operation would open with a landing on Tarakan island by one of the 9th Division's brigades on 1 May.

An army designed to have 17 brigades on active deployment now has 25 in the field.

Pupils worked in "laboratory brigades" on specific assignments for which they contracted.

But commanders in Afghanistan have asked for three more brigades on top of that.

Mr Yanukovich's backers established their own camp, and began to encounter the orange brigades on the capital's streets.

The arrangement would largely insulate the NATO advisers from the battlefield, though officials said advisers might accompany Afghan brigades on major operations.

Mike Faessler, Kedahda's director of security, acknowledged that the company had two platoons from Colombia's army's 5th brigade "on loan" to protect an exploration operation in the region because the "security situation is pretty dicey".

The 1st Airborne Division had the required airlift capacity to deliver all three parachute brigades with their glider borne anti-tank weapons or two of the parachute brigades and the airlanding brigade on day one.

This addition gave the brigade a total of five battalions, making it the largest brigade on Fort Bragg, and one of the largest in the United States Army.

In 2000, the brigade took on the additional responsibility of training Reserve Officer's Training Corps cadets.

The elements of the brigade were subsequently merged with the 4th Brigade, 78th Division (Training Support), another training brigade on base responsible for exercises.