airborne force


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airborne force

A force composed primarily of ground and air units organized, equipped, and trained for airborne operations. See also force(s).
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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Those earlier remanded were Issahaku Yakubu Kambo-Naa, leader of the criminal group and self acclaimed fetish priest, Nashiru Mahama Nana, a civilian employee driver/mechanic at the Airborne Force (ABF) of the Ghana Army, alleged to have supplied some military accoutrements to the fetish priest, Anas Kampolla, Zuka Abdela, the youth said to be the armourer and responsible for receiving and issuing of arms and ammunitions for attacks.
A statement by the intelligence said that an airborne force belonging to the Falcon Intelligence Cell, Nineveh, backed by the International Coalition Forces, carried out an aerial landing operation on Saqqar compound in Al-Baaj district west of Nineveh.
The second section recounts the period of expanding American forces from 1965 to 1968, following the growth of the Vietnamese airborne force to a division and the associated development of the Red Markers--although they remained a very small piece of the overall American commitment to the war.
The airborne force must forward stage at multiple ISBs or pre-existing forward bases in order to disaggregate when the initial-entry force requires an air package too large for a single airbase to support.
The recruits also received an advance reconnaissance detachment training about the Airborne Force held reconnaissance and tactics related to search operations, camouflage blocked and destroyed the command posts of illegal armed formations after seizing bridge-crossing sites in the area of responsibility of the rapid reaction collective forces.
For many years, it was the largest airborne force in the world.
Born in England and raised on an 800-acre farm in Kenya, Combes' managed a 2,000-acre African farm, taught Ugandan dictator Idi Amin to play rugby, commanded Kenya's airborne force and fought in a guerrilla war with Somali insurgents--all before he dedicated himself to becoming a full-time artist.
This piecemeal deployment of the airborne force probably resulted from the different time it took each aircraft to rerig en route; it undoubtedly contributed to Ranger casualties and allowed the enemy to mount a more effective resistance.
The Tamale District Magistrate Court, presided by His Lordship, Mr Amadu Issifu, has remanded into custody four persons, including a civilian employee at the Airborne Force of the Ghana Army, to enable police to continue with investigations into the killing of the policewoman, General Corporal Agatha Nana Nabin, in Tamale.
"A force from Al-Jazeera Operations Command cleared 12 kilometers of oil pipeline (Haditha-Baiji), and an airborne force found a caravan of 12-meter-long for terrorist Daesh covered in dirt with a large water tank and was treated by Army Aviation within the sector of responsibility./ End
"It is now less than two years that a decision has been made to equip the IRGC Ground Force with helicopters and start a helicopter unit," General Jafari told reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony on Wednesday to inaugurate an IRGC Airborne Force Center to overhaul helicopters near Tehran.
On September 17, 1944, the greatest airborne force in history took off from Britain in an attempt to bring the Second World War to a quick and decisive end.

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