"guard battalion" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a military unit that is tasked with protecting and defending a specific location or person. You can use it when describing a specific military operation or assignment. For example, "The guard battalion was responsible for protecting the president during his visit to the country."
As a lieutenant colonel she now commands a national guard battalion.
From his experience, Colonel Gubler said, the Iraqi National Guardsmen in the region are only slightly better, though one Iraqi National Guard officer he knew stood out: the lieutenant colonel in charge of a national guard battalion near Falluja, 30 miles east of Ramadi.
Thomas Kretschmann as Major Otto Ernst Remer: Commanding officer of Großdeutschland guard battalion.
He'd worn the skull-and-crossbones insignia of the "Death's Head" guard battalion to which he belonged, according to court records, but said he never hurt anyone.
It is also the custodian of the Buenos Aires Cabildo, the welcoming party for visiting foreign dignitaries to Argentina and the escort and honor guard battalion for the City Government of Buenos Aires.
Even though he was assigned to the Death's Head guard battalion at Auschwitz, he said, he refused to kill anyone, so he served as a perimeter guard, far from the killing.
And so, beginning in December 1951, a series of revolts broke out "inside the wire," culminating in pitched battles between armed prisoners and entire guard battalions in which hundreds of POWs and a small number of UNC troops lost their lives.
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.
Men assigned to the brigade, and to the two guard battalions, have mostly fled, Iraqis in Falluja say, taking their families with them, and handing their weapons to the militants.
Iraqi national guard battalions had joined coalition forces in their operations, and as if all this good news were not enough, Petraeus went on to conclude: "Considerable progress is being made in the reconstruction and refurbishing of infrastructure for Iraq's security forces".
The once-loved weekly rag, the sort of newspaper I joined back in the 1960s, was relatively expensive to produce with its regiment of foot-slogging young reporters and its home guard battalions of amateur correspondents submitting notes on suburb, village or local society.
