supporting forces

supporting forces

Forces stationed in or to be deployed to an operational area to provide support for the execution of an operation order. Combatant command (command authority) of supporting forces is not passed to the supported commander.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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Tanks are, after all, tanks, and wherever they and their supporting forces operate, the ecosystems they traverse can never be the same.
SANA reporter said that units of army, in cooperation with supporting forces, carried out special military operations against Deash terrorists, destroying a big number of their dens and points of fortifications.
He added that the Syrian authorities must implement the terms of the truce on an equal footing with the other parties and to respect the cessation of hostilities, warning Damascus and its supporting forces to test the robustness of the truce "./ end
Almadinah newspaper hailed the roles played by the Saudi armed, security and supporting forces in protecting the country.
According to Korean News Agency Yonhap, "If North Korea proposes a dialogue again, (the South's military) will accept the proposal," Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin said in a televised debate, adding the South's military is "ready for dialogue." In response to the North's attacks last year, Kim said, the South's military has changed its rules of engagement and bolstered its defense capabilities near the inter-Korean borders to immediately strike "the sources of attack as well as its supporting forces" in the event of another attack.
SANA's reporter said that the army units, in cooperation with the supporting forces, advanced in Qa'a al-Banat area about 1 km to the northwest of al-Safa hills after heavy clashes with Daesh.
She stated to the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA) "This issue urges us to call the government to ask the US side to show the number o the US bases, forces, supporting forces to enable the parliament in identifying the forces that will protect the US embassy in Iraq."
Provinces, SANA -- Syrian Arab Army units, in cooperation with the supporting forces, established control over the area of Qabir Eid Hneish and Baraket Hawa Awad in the depth of Sweida eastern Badyia (desert) in the framework of the continued operations against the remaining Daesh (ISIS) hotbeds in al-Safa hills.
SANA's reporter in Quneitra said that an army unit, backed by supporting forces, clashed with terrorist groups that had infiltrated from the direction of Mas'hara/Um Batina/al-Ajraf towards military points in the vicinity of Juba village and the area of Tal Koroum Juba in the eastern countryside of the province.
Hama, SANA -- A Syrian Arab Army unit, in cooperation with supporting forces, uncovered two mass graves in al-Rahjan town in Hama countryside containing the bodies of martyrs killed by terrorists before the town's liberation in January.
SANA's reporter said that the army, in coordination with supporting forces, consolidated their military positions in Aziza, Jeb al-Raman, Hawa, Khairia, Eastern Hawa, Khairia Kabira, KhairiaSaghira, Dalala, Tal Halawa, Jeb Othman, Loubaida, Mlolah, al-Sikari, al-Dekh, al-Salhieh, al-Halibia, Najem al-Zuhour, al-Masloukhia, Homa, Um Kharin, al-Smakhia, al-Wahibi, Nafakha, and al-Toufaha villages in the countrysides of Aleppo, Hama, Idleb after eliminating Daesh (ISIS) from the area.
SANA's reporter said that units of the army along with supporting forces continued their war against Jabhat al-Nusra in Aleppo's southern countryside with an operation which resulted in regaining control al-Waz hill west of Tarafawi village, killing and injuring many terrorists.

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