Collocations withinfantry
These are words often used in combination withinfantry.
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enemy infantry
The number of enemy infantry casualties caused by indirect fire proved impossible to determine but almost certainly exceeded the thirty infantrymen claimed.
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infantry battalion
He was, at the time, proceeding on reconnaissance with the commander of an infantry battalion.
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infantry brigade
Mobile divisions might consist of either a cavalry brigade or an infantry brigade in buses and two mixed armoured brigades.
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infantry division
This was made up of two mountain infantry divisions, one infantry division, one mechanised brigade, one artillery brigade, and a tank battalion.
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infantry formation
Once the bombardment had disordered the infantry formation, cavalry were able to rout and pursue the scattered foot soldiers.
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infantry officer
Each officer transferred is sent to a course for training as an infantry officer.
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infantry regiment
There was one question on the large infantry regiment.
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infantry soldier
I am the happier to do that as an infantry soldier myself.
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infantry tactics
I would not state it quite like that, but obviously they ought to know infantry training and understand infantry tactics.
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infantry training
Let us have infantry training camps over again, this time with volunteers, this time with a new and happier objective.
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infantry troop
The infantry troop (being in a cavalry squadron, makes it a troop, not a company) has few wheeled vehicles which directly belong to the troop.
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infantry unit
It was not an infantry unit, or anything like that.
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light infantry
I joined a famous light infantry regiment which did everything to the call of the bugle.
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mechanized infantry
Are we still using tanks as mechanized infantry instead of as mechanized cavalry?
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regular infantry
By 1997, the commitments that the regular infantry will need to meet will reduce by one third.
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