Sentence examples for military detachment from inspiring English sources

This number (50) announces the establishment of the 6827th Military Detachment under Colonel Robert J. Gill.

Armed conflict began in May 1804, when a military detachment opened fire on an Aboriginal hunting party.

For instance, in late March an American military detachment was sent to pick up some prisoners near Najaf.

In 1855 he, along with two other warriors, surrendered to white authorities to prevent punishment of the tribe in the wake of an attack on a military detachment.

In addition to Togo, where there has been a small French military detachment for 10 years, France also maintains a military presence in the Ivory Coast, the Central African Republic, Gabon and Senegal.

As he was transferred from the helicopter into an ambulance, cameras caught him lying in repose on a stretcher, his arms folded behind his head, while a dutiful military detachment stood stiffly nearby.

Blue-camouflaged riot police reinforced with military detachments had set up a perimeter around the parking lot, and officers on horseback patrolled the grounds.

But how will small U.S. military detachments with interceptors to defend against missiles that Russia does not have pose a threat to Russia?

He himself had organized new Cossack military detachments and included representatives of the underprivileged, non-Cossack population in his government to broaden his base of political support; he also had the military support of the Volunteer Army.

The government's latest resolution contains an eerily ingenious solution to one urgent social problem: from now on, military detachments will be encouraged to "adopt" boys 14 and older who are orphaned or have single mothers.

The makeup of his army was, however, already significantly different from that of Diocletian or Valentinian, and its growing number of non-Roman military detachments tended increasingly to have their own ethnic leaders and to be organized according to their own rules.