Sentence examples for squadron strength from inspiring English sources

Troops from the SAS arrived, first as the sultan's bodyguards, and then in squadron strength to fight the adoo.

Heavy fighting ensued in which all the Iraqi tanks were destroyed by a similar squadron-strength number of tanks from the Royal Scots Dragoon guards.

In 1998, the SASR made its first squadron-strength deployment since Vietnam when 1 Squadron, with an attached New Zealand SAS troop, was deployed to Kuwait in February as part of the American-led Operation Desert Thunder.

By the mid-1990s, No. 486 Squadron's strength was over 400 personnel.

As of 2011, No. 34 Squadron's strength included around thirty pilots and thirty flight attendants.

No. 24 Squadron's strength at the beginning of 1942 was four Hudsons, six Wirraways, and 130 staff.

In May 1972, 805 Squadron's strength was increased to eight Skyhawks, and it temporarily operated with ten of the type during Exercise Kangaroo in May 1974.

The squadron's strength declined during 1974 as personnel left the RAAF or moved to other units, and it was disbanded at Learmonth on 15 December 1974.

By the end of February, No. 1 Squadron's strength was 12 Demons and one Moth, 11 officers and 108 airmen.

The transfer swelled the squadron's strength to fifty-six aircraft—forty Mirages and sixteen Macchis and over 500 officers and men, making it the largest operational unit in the RAAF.

Initially comprising ninety-six personnel and eight aircraft, by the end of the month the squadron's strength had been reduced to seventy personnel and three Dragons operating in South Australia and the Northern Territory.