Sentence examples for divisions assigned from inspiring English sources
The General arrived in Iraq for the first time in March, 2003, as the invasion began, in command of the 101st Airborne Division, one of three divisions assigned to the initial drive toward Baghdad.
Army brigades and divisions assigned to Iraq could be sent home before the end of their normal yearlong tour, or other units preparing to go to the combat zone could be told to stay where they are, if American commanders and Iraqi officials believe they are not needed.
With time at the essence, Bessières opted not to wait for the Guard cavalry and, with his other two heavy cavalry divisions assigned to other sectors of the battlefield, he decided to lead forward only Nansouty's men.
You talked before about how you'd established the counterterrorism division and the intelligence division, assigned officers overseas...
Numerous U.S. government organisations have a division assigned for diffusing new technologies to local government as well as to the public; examples are the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Transportation, The U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Department of Education.
The single cavalry division assigned to the BEF in 1914 consisted of 15 cavalry regiments in five brigades.
The division, assigned to IX Corps, then assaulted and fought a fierce three-day battle culminating with the recapture of the terrain that had been lost near the Hwachon Reservoir just over the 38th parallel in North Korea.
The US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were assigned objectives on the Cotentin Peninsula west of Utah.
The Army's 2nd Infantry Division was one of two U.S. infantry divisions then assigned to the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
In March 1916 the two cavalry corps were disbanded and the five divisions were assigned to the five British armies.
In March 1945 the Australian Army's I Corps, whose main combat elements were the veteran 7th and 9th Divisions, was assigned responsibility for liberating Borneo.
