Sentence examples for operational detachment from inspiring English sources

The Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha, otherwise known as an "A-Team," increasingly had been operating in remote areas far from command support, the official said.

I was granted two embeds with the Operational Detachment Alpha, first in April and then again in July.

Two members of the Operational Detachment Alpha watching the effects of a bomb from the roof of the team's main building at Combat Outpost Blackfish in Nangarhar Province.

MOHMAND VALLEY, Afghanistan — When I spent time with the 12 men of the Operational Detachment Alpha team in July, they had been fighting an Islamic State affiliate, the Islamic State in Khorasan, for four months.

He deployed to southern Iraq in 2007 as a communications sergeant with the 10th Special Forces Group, serving on Operational Detachment Alpha 042, a 12-man unit known as an "A team". The soldiers spent most of their time training Iraqi police forces to battle insurgents.

Back in Ghazni, Temour established contact with an Army Special Forces team known as an Operational Detachment Alpha, which worked out of a secure compound on the base.

The mission began as a routine patrol before Operational Detachment-Alpha Team 3212 was redirected to the operation against the militant, Doundoun Cheffou, who has been linked to the Islamic State.

Haney says that Delta Force, whose official name is 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, is always referred to by its members simply as "the unit".

A group of Green Berets called ODA 574 (Operational Detachment-Alpha) was dropped in behind enemy lines weeks after 9/11 to link up with a then-unknown Pashtun leader named Karzai.

In 1989, the Australian Government employed the Hercules and Boeing 707s for transport during the pilots' dispute that curtailed operations by the two domestic airlines; the resulting spike in operational hours necessitated No. 486 Squadron sending detachments to several locations throughout the country to cope with increased maintenance demands.

The 2nd Operational Group also commanded the 16th Border Patrol Detachment and 107th Coastal Artillery Group, and mobilised Territorial Defence units from Herceg-Novi, Kotor, Tivat, Budva, Bar, Mojkovac, Bijelo Polje and Trebinje.