All 17 Uses of
battalion
in
Fallen Angels
- Medical personnel assigned to the Sixty-seventh Group or the 312th or the Twenty-third Battalion fall out and get in those buses over there.†
Chpt 1battalion = large group of soldiers
- I was with the Twenty-fourth Transportation Battalion, but I put in for a transfer 'cause I had a run-in with my commanding officer.†
Chpt 2
- They got reports of battalion-size movements.
Chpt 5 *
- A battalion of VC?†
Chpt 5
- The whole battalion standing down?†
Chpt 8
- "We heard that you guys ran into a VC battalion or something," he said.†
Chpt 8
- 'Cause I told them that Perry could handle the shit if it was only one damn battalion.†
Chpt 8
- There were a few guys there from a boat outfit, the 159th Transportation Battalion.†
Chpt 15
- Simpson said that they kept our squad up to par because the battalion commander liked him.†
Chpt 15
- There had to be at least a battalion.†
Chpt 15
- We got Gearhart to requisition some gloves and baseballs from battalion supply.†
Chpt 17
- Got a whole battalion wasted.†
Chpt 18
- Peewee wrote down the number of the highway that the ARVN colonel's battalion had been ambushed on and said that he was going to send it to his barber, who took numbers back home, and have him play it for the whole month.†
Chpt 18
- The flank fire seemed to move the whole battalion toward it and toward the paddies.†
Chpt 18
- Word had come that a second North Vietnamese battalion was moving toward the area.†
Chpt 19
- If they had the guts to send up a flare it had to be a damn battalion of them.†
Chpt 22
- Me and Peewee kidded a guy from the 159th Transportation Battalion who had lost part of his left hand about how he should have taken one of his boats home when he had the chance.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
a large group of soldiers -- especially an army unit consisting of a headquarters and at least three companies