Sentence examples for frontline battalions from inspiring English sources

From 1984 to 1986 Steele – a "counterinsurgency specialist" – was head of the US MilGroup of US special forces advisers to frontline battalions of the Salvadorean military, which developed a fearsome international reputation for its death-squad activities.

Reporting on the fighting around Tikrit is difficult, as frontline battalions tend not to allow journalists access.

After a four-day reprieve from the frontline, the 12th Battalion relieved the 9th Battalion at Lagnicourt on 14 April.

Following a four-day reprieve away from the frontline, the 12th Battalion relieved the 9th Battalion at Lagnicourt on 14 April.

The full citation for Ingram's Victoria Cross appeared in a supplement to the London Gazette on 6 January 1919, it read: Ingram was promoted to lieutenant on 24 October, and was training away from the frontline with his battalion when the Armistice was signed on 11 November 1918; thus ending the war.

Based on a different section of the frontline, the Sheikh Mansur battalion has a more overtly Islamist bent.

As well as their frontline duties, the Azov battalion also functions as "a kind of police unit", said a platoon commander who goes by the nom de guerre Kirt.

"Missing Finn wasn't part of the plan going into this game, but we know that someone with Pete Hornee's) experience and form is more than capable of grabbing this opportunity". Townsend is missing a battalion of frontline players.

The casualties of the 24th Battalion had been so high that two companies of the 27th Battalion had to be attached for support; the 24th Battalion left the frontline for the last time on 6 October.

The battalion first saw frontline service on 28 November, when two companies were attached to the 397th Infantry Regiment 100th Infantry Divisionn), which was itself temporarily attached to the 45th Infantry Division, fighting in the Vosges Mountains under the Seventh Army.

Along the western frontline, weary looking soldiers and battalion fighters are manning checkpoints in trench coats, while their comrades make tea and food over camp fires amid tents and frozen lines of washing.