Sentence examples for forward reconnaissance from inspiring English sources

The marines I was embedded with -- a forward reconnaissance unit at the front of the initial invasion -- were stunned by the sheer amounts of weaponry they saw as we raced across some 400 miles to Baghdad.

Forward reconnaissance units mapped the land from high observation points, using maps and hand-held GPS devices to identify targets accurately.

The QDG, based in Germany, has recently returned from operations in Afghanistan, where its units were operating as forward reconnaissance, as part of 20th Armoured Brigade deployments in Helmand.

Nine-tenths of the Canadian forward reconnaissance battalion became casualties during the bombardment.

Later it became apparent that they had been marking assault lanes, while at 02 25 three North Vietnamese from a forward reconnaissance party walked into a D Company, 1 RAR ambush and in the ensuing contact one was killed before they again broke contact, firing rocket-propelled grenades that killed one Australian and wounded 11 from a single platoon.

Fox had met Steinmetz once, in London, and had found him quiet and unassuming, but his understanding was that Steinmetz enlisted employees to pave the way for him — "pointy-end-of-the-spear forward-reconnaissance people".

Fox had met Steinmetz once, in London, and had found him quiet and unassuming, but his understanding was that Steinmetz enlisted employees to pave the way for him—"pointy-end-of-the-spear forward-reconnaissance people". Fox decided that his first essential task was to identify Steinmetz's man in Guinea.

After several days of careful and laborious movement through the thick jungle Broderick established a patrol base on the high ground overlooking the river on 26 May and sent forward a small reconnaissance party of three men with Lieutenant Patrick Beale.

O'Donnell ordered the lead platoon into ambush positions astride the track, while he moved forward to conduct a reconnaissance.

By mid-1946 5ACS was engaged in work on these airfields, building small forward airstrips for army reconnaissance aircraft and maintaining another four airfields in BCOF's area of responsibility.

Equally valuable was a television camera in the hands of a forward scout or in a reconnaissance aircraft, whether piloted or remotely controlled, to scan enemy territory.