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These vessels are designed to carry a battalion of troops and land them, and their vehicles.

...on of the 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment in January 1974, and the 2nd Battalion in October. These, however, were seen as elite infantry rather than special

...nal Warfare Task Force. With additional reorganizations, it had one Ranger battalion that did not report to ARVN Ranger Headquarters, and a C-team attached to e ...nally 11 officers and 82 enlisted men), LLDB personnel, and an ARVN Ranger battalion. It also had a security company, technically CIDG but made up of usually pr

...ll with the general Soviet preference for massed artillery. As soon as the battalion fired, it would move to avoid counterfire.

...ance at the Command and General Staff College, he returned to Vietnam as a battalion commander. While hospitalized for a back injury in 1971, he gave controvers

...one 14.5mm twin-barrel anti-aircraft guns battalion and one 120mm mortars battalion.<ref>Vinh Loc, p.80</ref> On 3 November, the Air Cavalry troops ambushed the 8th Battalion of the newly-infiltrated 66th Regiment while the 33rd Regiment was still tr

...ropriate security controls, a user could ask a networked computer for the "battalion-level map" or the "brigade-level map", and get a display focused on the cen

In modern militaries, typical command assignments at this level would be a battalion. These are formations of 500-1000 troops, or smaller specialized units that

...units), a Southern Marine Force (2 Marine Battalions), a River Operations Battalion, a Special Operations Forces|Special Forces Unit and several Security Batta ...Naval Fusiliers consists of 14 Companies of Fusiliers and a small commando battalion (''Fusiliers/commandos'', FUSCO). They are under the common command of the

...ers or heavy equipment operators in the "Seabees" [[U.S. Navy Construction Battalion]]. This approach still respected the need for experience, but there were fe

...l at all. The regiment and the battery levels are the operational one; the battalion is more an administrative level, for doing such things as organizing logist ...the minimum of specialized training. The standard deployment pattern of a battalion site consists of six semi-fixed trainable single rail launchers are deploye

He commanded an artillery battery and a battalion in Germany, and had Pentagon duty as an Army inspector general, and as a le

*Officers of 1-5 FA. 1999. ''1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Unit History''. P. 17. at [http://www.riley.army.mil/v

...ptions for the [[Korean War]], the Sixth Fleet has always had at least one battalion-sized Marine unit, now known as a [[Marine Air-Ground Task Force#Marine Exp

...listed in the [[Australian Imperial Force]]. Savige was posted to the 24th Battalion, he landed at [[Gallipoli]] in September 1915. After a series of promotions ...he was admitted to hospital, suffering from influenza. He returned to his battalion and in February 1917 became adjutant. For his 'consistent good work and dev

...ring war on the [[IRA]], signed 'Captain William Johnston, Adjutant, First Battalion, Belfast UVF'.

...(ABN). He has commanded at the Operational Detchment A (ODA), Company, Battalion/Squadron and Group levels within Special Forces. His other other special

...al work to do during active battle, Salomon volunteered to replace the 2nd Battalion's surgeon who had been wounded. On July 7, Salomon's aid station was set u ...n, in the [[Marianas Islands]] on July 7, 1944, as the Surgeon for the 2nd Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division. The Regiment’s 1st and

...embarked troops, vehicles, and gear of the Army's 82d Signal Construction Battalion. The next day, she got underway for a staging point in the [[Marshalls]]. O ...' continued discharging the troops, cargo, and equipment of the 82d Signal Battalion. Often at dawn and dusk, the call to general quarters alerted all hands tha

...ecial operations units, principally Raider battalions but also a parachute battalion, were created, but never were greeted enthusiastically by the chain of comm In the Second World War, the Marines organized the 1st Parachute Battalion, and even scaled up to regiment sized. The staff decided, however, that the