The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.
Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
General: Now each battalion has a specific code-name and mission. Battalion 5, raise your hands! [all the African American members put up their hands including Chef] General: You will be the all important first defense wave, which we will call "Opera...
It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Every battalion has its marching songs.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
Claudius: When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.
When I get the morning report on security, I call those battalions in the regions where there are problems.
The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.
If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe.
My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day.
The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.
He was presumably a lover. They did things like commanding battalions. And worse!
What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.
Big Joe: I'm going to Battalion to see if I can get some dirty movies...
Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
At the beginning of the war…I had to look in on the War Office, and in a room I found a fellow…What do you think he was doing…what the hell do you think he was doing? He was devising the ceremonial for the disbanding of a Kitchener battalion. Y...
