Ferris was a Marine who served in the United States and Japan in administrative roles with an engineering battalion during the war.
When the GSPC merged with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Mr Belmokhtar headed an AQIM battalion in the desert between Algeria and Mali.
The unit didn't begin to feel the effects of the surge until mid- May, after it was given an additional battalion from another division, he recalled.
To achieve complete independence, an Iraqi battalion must do more than fight the enemy on its own it must also have the ability to provide its own support elements, including logistics, airlift, intelligence, and command and control through their ministries.
In a three-week period last month, an American marine battalion, tasked with taking control of Garmser, a Talibanised district of southern Helmand, called in one air strike, to drop a 500-pound bomb.
Since World War II up until 2008, we maintained the dominant military force in the Mediterranean, consisting of at least one carrier battle group and an amphibious Ready Group with an embarked Marine battalion, along with logistic support ships and other units.
The soldiers belonged to an anti-guerrilla battalion fighting members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) in the San Vicente de Caguan area.
Elwood is the battalion clerk in an antiquated peacetime outfit, and, in the absence of combat, he devotes his skills to the black market and the heroin trade.
The shots seemed to come from an area patrolled by the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment, the inquest in Oxford was told at the earlier hearing.
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In the first incident, a soldier from 4th Battalion The Rifles died in an explosion while on foot patrol near Nad Ali on Thursday afternoon, said Britain's Ministry of Defence.
"We will increase U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan by deploying a Marine battalion this November and in January 2009 an Army brigade combat team -- both units that had been slated for Iraq, " Gates said.
The men, both from 1st Battalion The Irish Guards, were killed in an explosion last week.
When his commander was killed, Wolff took charge of the battalion of 3, 000 Americans and led an offensive into the Sierra Pandols.
Two unnamed sources interviewed by Izvestia - a military psychologist and a deputy battalion commander - argued that gay soldiers were an unwelcome distraction in the army.
Cpl Savage, a keen skier and kayak instructor, was described by Lt Col Robin Lindsay, Commanding Officer, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, as an "exceptional soldier".
In 2008, he was assigned to Hounslow, West London, and became "an integral member of the Corps of Drums throughout the Battalion's time on public duties, the highlight of which was being a part of the Household Division's Beating the Retreat -- a real honour for a line infantry Corps of Drums, " the ministry said.
He now serves as an adaptive reconditioning non-commissioned officer at the Warrior Transition Battalion, helping soldiers like him who are recovering from injuries or disease.
Fort Bragg's Womack Army Medical Center, he points out, with its Warrior Transition Battalion, for those injured in war, and an advanced traumatic brain injury center, is just 5 miles away.
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He had been an apprentice at Swansea City football club before being commissioned into 1st Battalion, The Royal Welsh (Royal Welch Fusiliers).
It consists of only 800 fighting infantrymen in an area 250 miles (400km) by 250 miles, a battalion fewer than many thought the bare minimum.
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An 11-man team can advise, really, at the battalion level, at brigade level, at the division level, but is designed really to help the senior leader in an organization, the senior commander in an organization and his immediate staff.
In previous tours in 2009, the battalion lost Lance Corporal Chris Harkett when he was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) as he provided covering fire on a Taliban stronghold near Musa Qala.
Kapaun distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty while serving with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Calvary Division during combat operations against an armed enemy at Unsan, Korea, from November 1st to 2nd, 1950.
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Chaplain Kapaun will receive the Medal of Honor posthumously for his extraordinary heroism while serving with the 3d Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division during combat operations against an armed enemy at Unsan, Korea and as a prisoner of war from November 1-2, 1950.
Soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment are trying to clear the Taliban from an important stronghold in the Nad Ali district.
Against a miniature backdrop of Manhattan, a battalion of gorgeous guys will form sort of a hunkpowered elevator and pass me bodily off an ornate, ten-foot-tall bridge.
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