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How to use the word Battalion in a Sentence?

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The heroic, barrier-breaking members of the Six Six Triple Eight Six Triple Eight Battalion -- which included brave Nevada women -- played a crucial role in the operations of our armed forces during World War II, they deserve our nation's highest honors for their service. There is no better time to give them this long-overdue recognition than during Women's History Month, and I'm proud to see President Biden sign our bipartisan legislation into law.

Jacky Rosen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is one thing I want to make very clear : I knew, and every soldier in my battalion knew, that we had a commander-in-chief who had our back, and we knew that if the worst happened to us, then our enemies would pay for it immediately, and even more importantly than that, our enemies knew that.

Jake Bequette

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As of Jan. 26, Army commanders have relieved a total of six regular Army leaders, including two battalion commanders, and issued 3,073 general officer written reprimands to Soldiers for refusing the vaccination order.

The Army

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I had to devise a plan on what to do. And the plan was to evacuate the building, and then rescue those that couldn’t get out, and then I had to give those orders to the fire officers, captains and lieutenants and battalion chiefs that came in, and the firefighters.

Joseph Pfeifer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At the direction of the Commander in Chief, I have authorized the deployment of an infantry battalion from the Immediate Response Force of the 82nd Airborne Division( in Fort Bragg, North Carolina) to the U.S. Central Command area of operations in response to recent events in Iraq.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Now, there's all sorts of stuff in the news, and that sort of thing. You just concentrate on what your company commander, your battalion commander tells you. Because if you read all that stuff, you know, you'll go nuts, you know what your mission is here. You've had to deploy on short notice to a nontraditional location and do your jobs. So you focus on doing that.

Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Acting on a tip-off, the Rapid Action Battalion arrested them from an apartment.

Mizanur Rahman Bhuiya

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The addition of this battalion is part of an Army-wide reorganization that will raise the number of MLRS (multiple-launch rocket system) battalions in all field artillery brigades from two to three.

Steve Warren

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In the past we would have a British Army division working alongside an American division. Now it might be a British brigade inside an American division, or even a British battalion inside an American brigade.

Staff General Raymond Odierno

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We had an advanced party of 18 members of the incoming battalion arrive on Jan. 9 to begin preparations for delivery of contingent-owned equipment.

Brian Kelly

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Overall deployment of the 700-stong Chinese infantry battalion and its equipment will take more than two months to complete.

Brian Kelly

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The Rapid Intervention Battalion of our army immediately launched an attack, seized 84 children between seven and 15 who were undergoing training in the camp, arrested 45 of the trainers and killed many more.

Didier Badjeck

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Definitely there has to be checks and balances. All the formations have to be reviewed in terms of the numbers. There should be no ghost members of the military, people should be accountable. Your battalion, the number of your members should be accounted for, for weapons or salaries, for munitions for food. These are basic things it doesn’t need a genius (to understand).

Hoshiyar Zebari

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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