Sentence examples for mortar squad from inspiring English sources

He told the mortar squad to fire at the area, disperse the fighters, and even detonate the mines if they could.

The actions of each of the individual foot soldiers, mortar squad members and individual pilots are level-one actions.

Thus the individual members of the mortar squad jointly operate the mortar in order to realise the collective end of destroying enemy gun emplacements.

Thus the "actions" of the mortar squad destroying enemy gun emplacements, the flight of military planes providing air-cover and the infantry platoon taking and holding the ground might be severally necessary and jointly sufficient to achieve the collective end of defeating the enemy; as such these "actions" constitute a joint action.

And Khan Yunis residents freely acknowledged that their neighborhood was used by roving mortar squads.

Hamas's mortar squads are using this network of tunnels to attack Israeli forces, reports the Daily Telegraph.

In conjunction with the ground operation by infantry and the Armored Corps, the army spokesman said, the air force carried out three strikes, two against squads launching mortar shells and one against a car carrying armed militants.

And Israel struck a squad that was firing mortars from northern Gaza as violence continued in the wake of an attack on Thursday that killed eight Israelis, Israeli officials said.

An Israeli military spokesman said the target was a squad that had fired a mortar shell 20 minutes earlier.

But an Israeli Army spokesman said ground forces had attacked a squad that was on its way to fire mortar shells at Israel.

In addition, both platoons had thirty-six men in three squads – two assault squads and one heavy weapons squad – and were furnished with a 60 mm M2 mortar, two M20 Super Bazookas, and a M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle as well as the M1 Garand and M2 Carbines that the majority of the men were armed with.