Sentence examples for combat division from inspiring English sources

He asked to be transferred to a combat division.

Instead, he relied on the heavy equipment that was already in Kuwait — enough for just one full combat division.

Influential though it was, the KGB was a "combat division" of the Communist Party, and subordinate to it.

At age 19 he was appointed a political commissar, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, in a combat division of the Albanian Partisan forces.

The United States bases 37,000 troops in South Korea, including a full combat division, near the demilitarized zone between the South and the North.

Fortunes turned in 1947 when an enlightened general, James Gavin, recognised the unit's value and incorporated it into the 82nd Airborne Division – the first black unit integrated into a US combat division.

Both served in combat divisions, one in Bosnia and Kosovo.

He said all 13 of the Syrian Army's combat divisions were engaged in suppressing rebel attacks.

It is overstretched, but it has at least four effective combat divisions.

Among them were the first seven women to be commissioned into combat divisions since combat restrictions for them were lifted.

When the first combat divisions landed in Vietnam, evacuation and field hospitals, fully staffed and equipped, landed with them.