Sentence examples for reconnaissance ahead from inspiring English sources

Operating independently, the corp's cavalry conducted reconnaissance ahead of them, and on the flanks.

On the night of July 17 18, Major Bruce made a personal reconnaissance ahead of his troops through heavy flanking machine-gun fire.

Burgoyne ordered some of the scouts and Indians over to the east side of the lake for reconnaissance ahead of the German column, and brought some of the Germans over to the west side.

After graduating from the High School of Commerce, he fought with distinction as an infantryman in WWII, volunteering for reconnaissance duty ahead of the front lines in France and Germany.

Acting as a spearhead, they sent out reconnaissance patrols ahead of the divisional main body and set up roadblocks to limit the movement of retreating North Korean forces.

Beevor and Delaforce have written that the ambush would have been mitigated had it been detected sooner and blame "Erskine's failure to provide [a] reconnaissance screen" ahead of the British vanguard as it moved to Point 213.

A central theme of the strategy is making clear to commanders that adapting to new threats, adopting new doctrine and fielding new technology, in particular for surveillance and reconnaissance, must move ahead even as the military is stressed by global deployments and the continuing missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The UN security detail set out to perform reconnaissance in Douma ahead of the arrival of the actual inspectors, who were scheduled to go in on Wednesday.

Three reconnaissance vehicles had driven ahead, and one confirmed by radio what the investigator hoped to hear: no new checkpoints.

This is the behaviour of a true man of action: having received a reliable reconnaissance report of trouble ahead he immediately changes his line of advance.

Sent ahead for reconnaissance, the 21st Lancers, with young war correspondent Winston Churchill temporarily one of their number, rode into a hidden mass of Mahdists, who inflicted sixty-one casualties on the startled horsemen.