Sentence examples for class of troops from inspiring English sources
There was an additional class of troops who followed the army without specific martial roles and were deployed to the rear of the third line.
There was an additional class of troops (Latin: accensi, also adscripticii and later supernumerarii) who followed the army without specific martial roles and were deployed to the rear of the triarii.
The distinction between the heavy infantry types of hastati, principes and triarii began to blur, perhaps because the state was now assuming the responsibility of providing standard-issue equipment to all but the first class of troops, who alone were able to afford their own equipment.
The class is part of Troops to College, an initiative begun in 2006 and championed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to attract veterans to California state colleges and universities and make them feel at home on campus.
Few Battalions Are Operational At three main training centers established at former Hussein-era bases -- Taji, north of Baghdad; Kirkush, near the Iranian border; and Numaniya, southeast of Baghdad -- a $5.7 billion American-financed program to train and equip the new forces is in high gear, graduating soldiers in battalion-size classes of 1,500 troops.
Nine out of 10 times, he said, Mr. Shays voted with his party on issues like tax cuts for the middle class and timetables for withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
Ever since the introduction of mass armies in Europe in the seventeenth century, governments have generally understood that to underpay and underfeed one's troops – and the class of people that supplies them – is to risk having the guns pointed in the opposite direction from that which the officers recommend.
Hitherto, although there have been reports of troops moving northward and of concentrations of Black Shirts, no additional classes have been called up.
Furthermore, hunting disrupted the social structure of troops.
So does the calling up of troops.
