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    infantry


    1. Back at Sagan, the exo-atmospheric infantry combat instructor had said (with a lunar drawl) ‘Successful infantry combat maneuvering does not allow the enemy to acquire your flank or the flank of adjoining units


    2. responded, “But, yes, we all served in the Infantry during the War


    3. Also the Infantry, Artillery, Engineers, Pioneers and many more service personnel as well as troops from all over the Empire sat in the carriages or corridors as the train thundered on


    4. (poor bloody infantry) that has to go over the top and win it


    5. “Its true Haig’s a General but he’s a cavalryman and no cavalryman has ever been any good to the poor bloody infantry


    6. * We see it in their resumes, where they very much exaggerate what Special Forces was and tries to apply the same with normal infantry battalions hoping the prospective employers would be too stupid to know the difference


    7. General Lawton, with the 1st and 22nd Regular Infantry, 2nd Massachusetts, and detachments of the 4th, 8th, and 25th Infantry, pushed ahead into Siboney, finding it already occupied by Cubans under General Castillo, who had attacked the rear guard of Linares, as they were firing the town


    8. Three companies of the Puerto Rico Battalion held his right, commanding the main road, while opposing the Rough Riders, Major Alcaniz commanded half a battalion of the San Fernando Infantry; two companies of the Talavero Regiment, a company of engineers, and two gun detachments held the centre


    9. Pouring in heavy volleys from their carbines, the cavalry then surged forward, the enemy's right flank falling back in good order before the Rough Riders, who were now enfiladed by Rubin's mountain artillery, and the infantry supports entrenched along the ridge


    10. Preparatory action holds infantry to cover with artillery at the front, until the shelling has produced sufficient effect for a general advance

    11. Into the unknown jungle the cavalry and infantry advanced


    12. Cavalry and infantry were mixed, but the former deployed to the right, the latter on the left


    13. Pearson's Brigade, the 2nd, 10th, and 21st Infantry, had now crossed the ford


    14. In the centre General Hawkins, his white hair flowing loosely in the breeze, led forward his infantry brigade


    15. A fraise of barbed wire was negotiated with loss, and as the cavalry joined hands with the infantry right, it was an individual race from the extended lines to the top of the hill


    16. The 16th, 6th, 9th, 13th, and 24th Infantry formed along the captured ridge, while Pearson's Brigade, 10th, 21st, and 2nd Infantry, which had extended on the extreme left, swept over a succeeding ridge, driving in a second outpost of the enemy


    17. General Sumner and Colonel Wood both sent to General Kent for infantry reinforcements, and the gallant 13th was moved to the right to support the cavalry


    18. But as we watched the straw hats bobbing, and an occasional swarthy face, the whole cavalry division reverted from individual firing to rapid volleys, a machine gun turned loose, the infantry on our left were responding strongly, and the enemy withdrew to their first line of entrenchments with loss


    19. At first the guns had accomplished little; but as the infantry closed in on the citadel, several well-planted shell burst within


    20. Our infantry had little cover, and the enemy's machine guns, finally located in the church tower, played sad havoc

    21. Colonel Miles, with the 1st, 4th, and 25th Infantry, closed in on the west, coming up on the other side of the hill; and after Capron, with a few excellent shots, had crushed in a bastion and carried away the roof in a dozen places, a united charge took place, both brigades storming the hill


    22. The 25th Infantry suffered severely, ascending the hill; and though the citadel was the key to Caney, its capture had by no means ended the fight


    23. General Ludlow's Brigade, 8th and 22nd Infantry, and 2nd Massachusetts, moved against the defences on the northwest


    24. The 1st Infantry extended, cutting off retreat to the hills, and a detachment of Cubans engaged the blockhouses on the north, but made a poor showing, having expended their ammunition recklessly before closing in


    25. Thus again the worn-out cavalry and infantry were without artillery support, in a country topographically a gunner's paradise had reconnaissance been made for the selection and preparation of suitable sites


    26. Escario had a column of thirty-three hundred infantry, two hundred and fifty cavalry, two field-guns, and sixty transport mules


    27. Our left was but three hundred yards from the enemy's position; and from the trenches of the 21st Infantry a very clear view of the enemy was obtainable


    28. A few moments later, General Toral and his staff, and an infantry brigade marched out from the city


    29. The place was practically impregnable from infantry attack


    30. In fact everything to do with the training of light infantry in a counter insurgency role was well-catered for

    31. However, with the Rhodesian problem the SAP had to quickly relearn how to work as light infantry or die in the process


    32. The tactics used was totally different between the ones in Namibia where SAP COIN acted as highly mobile mechanized infantry


    33. A Ratel is an 18 ton wheeled infantry fighting vehicle the Army used with great effect


    34. With the surrendered troops was the SAP Infantry Brigade who took a very dim view of proceedings


    35. Adriano was somewhat uncertain about the usefulness of Japanese infantry equipment for in-house-


    36. At one stage there were close to 2000 South African policemen cum light infantry in Rhodesia


    37. We think of the Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI) who was later trained as paratroopers and became a commando regiment


    38. The RLI was an all-white unit and the best book to read on them, if you are interested, is "Fire Force - One man's war in the Rhodesian Light Infantry" by Chris Cox


    39. It directly led to the deployment of policemen in Rhodesia to learn the skills of COIN which our nationalist generals lost somehow for the police always had a military function and in fact fought in the Second World War as an infantry brigade


    40. What the articles failed to mention was that it was destroyed before being left and only after it fired every round available and long after the FNLA infantry ran away to Zaire (now the Congo)

    41. They made their reputation as crack light infantry once on the ground whether by parachute or helicopter and considered themselves rightly to be an elite force as do all paratroopers


    42. Since they had none of the usual support vehicles which an infantry battalion would have it made sense to use them in the fireforces role and on external operations with 32 Battalion


    43. At that stage they were an all-white unit as was the Rhodesian Light Infantry


    44. The infantry as always in COIN walked and drove patrols and guarded strategic points


    45. I have serious doubts over the effectiveness of normal infantry in COIN


    46. They soon progressed to highly mechanized infantry using their excellent Casspir armoured vehicles and much other appropriated equipment from the Army


    47. All unit members could and did fight as infantry when needed


    48. What are important are the tactics used and basically the Special Forces lads directed the air strikes from the ground and fast moving artillery with UNITA and 32 Battalion acting as infantry


    49. We saw that it was a police unit acting as highly mobile mechanised infantry who had the most success later in South Africa's war and not the military


    50. In 1977, promoted now to Lieutenant Colonel and transferred into the depleted officer corps of the infantry, Truman was leading an assault team around a bend in a dirt road north of Ocotal, near the Honduran border, when a whistling rifle round cut a furrow across his right cheek and punched a neat hole through his ear an instant before the first cracks of AK-47’s rang out














































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    Synonyms for "infantry"

    foot infantry military troops army battalion corps

    "infantry" definitions

    an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot