Sentence examples for combat battalions from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bush praised what he called the growing proficiency of Iraq's government and its security forces, noting that Iraq now had 192 combat battalions.

The Pentagon's quarterly report in January concluded that as of last October only 17 of 175 Iraqi Army combat battalions could carry out counterinsurgency operations without American support.

The US troops will constitute one of Nato's four multinational combat battalions in eastern Europe intended to reassure the region against the threat of Russian encroachment.

That shortage led the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Gen. Dan K. McNeill, to ask for at least three more combat battalions, they said.

One of many female volunteers to fight – there were mixed-gender Spanish combat battalions on the front line and women-only rear guard battalions – she was the only known British woman.

Researchers in the United States also point out that most of their estimates of post-traumatic stress come from combat battalions that spent tours "outside the wire" — in very hot zones of the conflict.

information officer, is ordered to be embedded in a combat battalion in order to "sell the war" to the citizenry.

A decorated WWII Veteran, he served in the Engineering Combat Battalion in the Central Europe and Rhineland Campaigns.

broke out in Rwanda, he served at the front as the leader of a combat battalion, and he served in the high command during the genocide, too.

In recent years, hundreds have served in Nahal Haredi, a combat battalion established in the late 1990s for ultra-Orthodox 18-year-olds.

More than 2,500 haredim and other religious soldiers have served in a combat battalion set up in the late 1990s for ultra-Orthodox 18-year-olds.