Sentence examples for security battalion from inspiring English sources

The morning was taken up with defence questioning of Robert Oltman, Quantico's security battalion commander in charge of the brig.

Observing that he is an American commander of a United Nations command security battalion, he said, "A strike here would be a strike on all three flags" of the United States, South Korea and the United Nations.

Mass executions took place "on the German model": in public, for purposes of intimidation; bodies would be left hanging from trees, guarded by Security Battalion collaborators to prevent their removal.

Senior British officers knew exactly what they were doing, despite the fact that the ordinary soldiers of the former Security Battalions were the scum of Greece".

When the intelligence services needed to integrate the Greek Security Battalions – the Third Reich's "Special Constabulary" – into a new police force, they had found their man.

When the fighting broke out in December, the British and the provisional government let the Security Battalions out of Goudi; they knew how to fight street-to-street because they'd done it with the Nazis.

Professor Mark Mazower's book Inside Hitler's Greece describes hideous bloccos or "round-ups" – whereby crowds would be corralled into the streets so that masked informers could point out ELAS supporters to the Gestapo and Security Battalions – which had been established by the collaborationist government to assist the Nazis – for execution.

In Nablus, the first city where Mr Abbas chose to fill the security vacuum with his American-trained national-security battalions, turf wars have recently erupted between rival commanders, puncturing four years of calm.

A lawyer for Zaur Dadayev, a former deputy commander of the Sever security forces battalion in Chechnya, who allegedly fired the gun, told the court that he was innocent.

To assist with security, a Japanese battalion was rearmed and given a sector of the defences to man.

The American tanks were subsequently allocated to both C and D Companies and they provided rear security to the battalion during the night.