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...At the time, a spokesman for the Israeli army claimed that Abu Omar served as a deputy company commander in Hamas’s Eastern Khan Younis Battalion, as well as working for Al Jazeera....
...“Unfortunately, the enemy greatly outnumbers us,” said Yuriy Fedorenko, commander of the “Achilles” drone battalion. While he was speaking, live drone footage showed Russian forces on the move....
...But many of the volunteer battalions fighting in Ukraine have maintained independence from the army, with the Wagner paramilitary group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin often revelling in criticising the military...
...He embedded with the men of Second Platoon, Battle Company, Second Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team of the US Army....
...Notably, the battalion meant to guard the president did not repel the attacks....
...Its employees, in a uniform of dark-green army camouflage jackets, walk the streets, acting like an auxiliary police force....
...We in the Azov Regiment, are the military servicemen of Ukraine, of various nationalities. There are Jews among us, Greeks among us, Belarusians, Gagauz people, these are all Ukrainian citizens....
...Bowles, former member of the Household Cavalry army regiment (and first husband of Camilla, the new Queen Consort)....
...“Azov’s history is rooted in a volunteer battalion formed by the leadership of a neo-Nazi group....
...The army would be “leaner but more productive”, he added, as he confirmed plans for a new 1,200-strong “Ranger regiment” modelled on the US army’s elite Green Berets....
...The three units reported to be in Ukraine are the “Akhmad Kadyrov” Special Motorised Regiment of the National Guard, the guard’s 249th Separate Special Motorised Battalion “Yug”, and the Defense Ministry...
...equip five Ukrainian battalions, according to a senior US defence official....
...Carleton-Smith said the new 1,000-strong regiment would stand up the first of its four battalions early next year....
...Powell’s star-studded tenure in the armed forces began as a commissioned lieutenant in the US army, including time as a platoon leader of an infantry regiment stationed in West Germany....
...Associates from the time remember him as a fun boss who led a tight-knit group of employees....
...I have no doubt Heer directed me to those employees with the sunniest dispositions....
...,” said de Bretton-Gordon, who led the British army’s responses to anthrax, sarin and chlorine gas attacks in Iraq and Syria, and also commanded Nato’s Rapid Reaction CBRN battalion....
...“He thought he was invincible; he genuinely thought he’d live forever,” says Jess Percival of her brother, Kevin Holt, a former soldier in 9 Platoon, C Company, 2nd Battalion, The Rifles regiment, who took...
...Lt Col Derek Wilford, commander of the 1st Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, on Bloody Sunday, told the BBC: “I don’t believe they [the soldiers] were capable of that sort of indiscriminate shooting and...
...He joined the same regiment as his father, the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, and the army paid for his Sandhurst training....
...a battalion commander....
...The US Army this week rejected all suggestions that the Ranger training course had been relaxed this year because of the presence of women soldiers....
...The Longest Afternoon is his vividly told story of the 2nd Light Battalion of the King’s German Legion, a formation of exiles from Hanover....
...“I commanded the 1st Battalion, The Green Howards, and this was a spare drum that was given to me.”...
...General Douglas Haig, commanding officer of the 1st Army Corps and later commander-in-chief of the British army on the western front, complained to General James Jack in July 1915 that men were falling asleep...
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