Although BZ figured prominently in the plot of the 1990 movie, Jacob's Ladder, as the compound responsible for hallucinations and violent deaths in a fictitious American battalion in Vietnam, this agent never saw operational use.

Swedish journalist Jan-Olof Bengtsson, who visited the Swedish UN battalion in Famagusta port and saw the sealed-off part of the town from the battalion ’ s observation post, called the area a ' ghost town '.

The point is that every soldier who hit that causeway saw every general officer and the regimental and battalion commanders right there.

In many cases, a third-line battalion ( the 3 / 5th ) was formed after the first-line battalion was sent overseas, freeing up the second for foreign service ; the third-line battalions were usually used for home defence or training ; few saw action.

The battalion saw action at the British victory at Driefontein on 10 March 1901.

The following day the German forces counter attacked, forcing the 6th Battalion back, the bitter fighting saw the battalion lose 16 Officers and 220 other ranks in the first two days.

The fighting around Fontenay-le-Pesnel saw the battalion lose some 120 men, killed and wounded.

Further fighting saw the battalion advancing daily, bolstered up to a force of 30 officers and 850 men, after the merger of the 1 / 6th battalion, and on 3 September they had crossed the Seine.

The end of November 1918 saw the formation of the Baltic battalion ; primarily a mounted machine-gun company plus infantry.

During the fighting, most of the 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment were killed or captured during a stubborn resistance during the Battle of the Imjin River that saw the commanding officer — Lieutenant Colonel James Carne — awarded the Victoria Cross after his battalion was surrounded.

Daly's battalion, stationed in the Four Courts and areas to the west and north of Dublin center, saw the most intense fighting of the rising.

After the war, the 1st battalion moved to Ceylon in 1857 and thence to India, returning home in 1870, whilst the 2nd battalion moved to Hong Kong, and saw action in the Second Opium War, fighting at the capture of the Taku Forts ( 1858 ) and Pekin ( 1860 ), and returning home in 1861.

In 1881, the 1st was in the West Indies ; it moved to South Africa in 1884, when it saw action in the Bechuanaland campaign, and remained there until 1891, when it moved back to the UK to serve as the depot battalion and the 2nd moved out to India, where it remained until 1909.

Lowe later saw active service successively in Elba, Portugal, and Minorca, where he was entrusted with the command of a battalion of volunteer Corsican exiles in the British Army, the Royal Corsican Rangers, who were trained as Baker rifle armed light infantry.

He saw service on the North-West Frontier with the 2nd battalion of the regiment, and was rapidly given a variety of appointments within the battalion and the regimental depot.

The battalion eventually saw battle in France in 1917 and 1918.

The soldiers of the battalion were veterans of the Italian Army who saw action on the Russian Front and had chosen service in the SS rather than face another tour in the East with the Wehrmacht.

The following year, in June, the battalion took part in the Battle of Wilhelmsthal in which a heavily outnumbered Allied force defeated the French after some bitter fighting, of which the Guards battalions saw much of it.

The battalion quickly saw its first engagements in November, at Belmont, which ended in a British victory, and at the Battle of the Modder River, another British victory, though it had come at a heavy cost in British life after the British forces had come under a terrible withering fire from the Boer defenders, but the Boers eventually withdrew ; the Scots Guards gained a battle honour for their part in the battle.

The battalion subsequently took part in the Battle of the Aisne where the battalion saw heavy fighting, including at the Aisne Heights and Chivy.

235 men were killed and a further 350 wounded Those casualty figures are wrong, — more than half of the battalion — within half an hour.

Just before his disappearance, Holt approved a further increase in troop numbers, committing a third battalion to the war — a decision that was subsequently revoked by his successor, John Gorton.

During the Cultural Revolution, however, further destruction was prevented when Premier Zhou Enlai sent an army battalion to guard the city.

They are used as elite infantry to spearhead attacks, carry out reconnaissance and further the objectives on the battalion in the battlefield.

The army had no cavalry to pursue the Sauks should they flee further into Illinois on horseback, and so on June 5 Gaines requested that the state militia provide a mounted battalion.

In a bid to further delay Schellenberg ’ s advance, Bonaparte committed his main Guard battalion and its artillery, which moved to flank the column.

Three battalions of infantry on the hills south of Bertaimont with five companies of infantry and a squadron of cavalry guarding his left Two other companies were further to the left, the Mont Palisel and an infantry battalion was Mons.

After vacating his position as adjutant of the 4th battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers in November 1923, Christison was assistant manager of the British Olympic team in Paris in 1924 which was followed by a further appointment as an adjutant, this time with his regiment.

Sitting further back in divisional reserve, to the north-east on " Mortar Ridge ", was a battalion from the 57th Regiment, which had been relieved from its position on the front line north of Lone Pine was an Arab battalion of the 72nd Regiment.

After the initial night, the exercise continued for a further three days and included a complex supply mission designed to test whether it was possible to supply an isolated battalion of airborne troops.

In 1830 the battalion was involved in internal security duties in Van Diemen's Land, in order to prevent further incidents by the native Aborigines there.

In February 1916, he joined the 185th battalion, known as the Cape Breton Highlanders, leaving for Britain in October 1916 where he received further training.

The Middlesex position lay a further south-west of the foot of the ridge and could be reached by the ford secured earlier by Gerke, which would act as the battalion check point for the withdrawal.

The first of these divisions, that of Girard, moved in ordre mixte — four battalions in column flanked on either side by a battalion in line, and further flanked by a battalion and a half in column — while Gazan's division moved in battalion column.

Battalion / LLSR ( Major Edgar Stentzler ); This battalion landed unscathed around Rapaniana, with one platoon under Leutnant Peter Mürbe being dropped further west to secure an unfinished airfield near Kastelli.

The insignia was also painted on steel trench helmets, and adorned with geometric shapes of different colours to further identify the soldier's specific battery, brigade, battalion or other subunit.

Each brigade was attached to part of the Polish border which was further divided onto battalion areas organised around small forts along the border.

The Belgian United Nations Command | Belgian battalion occupies blocking positions near the brigade's command post, RNF, RUR and 8th Hussars are still further north.

The Belgians occupied blocking positions west and southwest of 29th Brigade's command post in order to allow the other units of 29th Brigade which were still further north along Route 11, the main line of retreat, to fall back through the battalion ’ s positions ( see map ).

Regardless, with the bombardment a possible indicator of further offensive action against 1 ATF, Jackson considered that he would be unable to adequately respond with only one battalion.

As a member of a reserve battalion during World War I, Himmler did not see active service.

A 7th battalion was eventually raised as a rifle battalion specifically for service in the American War of 1812.

The battalion is usually part of a regiment, group or a brigade, depending on the organizational model used by that service.

Every battalion will also include some sort of combat service support, typically organized within a combat support company.

Tactically, the Canadian battalion forms the core of the infantry battle group, which also includes various supporting elements such as armour, artillery, combat engineers and combat service support.

Due to the combined nature of the Canadian Forces, however, it is not impossible for an air force Chief Warrant Officer or a naval Chief Petty Officer 1st Class ( CPO1 ) to rise to that post, especially in units with a high number of support trades personnel ; examples might include a Logistics Branch CPO1 being appointed RSM of a service battalion, or an air force Communications and Electronics Branch CWO appointed to the position in a Communication Regiment.

The four regiments ( or eight battalions ) in British service have since been reduced to a single ( two battalion ) regiment while the Indian units have been expanded beyond their pre-Independence establishment of twelve battalions.

After a two-year military service at a Panzergrenadier battalion in Ellwangen, he left the Bundeswehr as " Leutnant der Reserve " ( reserve officer ).

His superior education ensured his promotion to the rank of sergeant after six years ' service, and in July 1791 he became instructor to the first battalion of volunteers of the Bas-Rhin.

The first regimental guns in English service were ordered by King James II in 1686 ; two 3-pounders for each of the seven regiments ( of one battalion each ) encamped in Hyde Park.

Waldeck had raised a battalion of infantry in 1681 but for much of the subsequent history leading up to the Napoleonic Wars, Waldeckers generally served as ' mercenaries ' ( actually hired out by the rulers of Waldeck ) in foreign service.

Albers ' crew of 35 workers ( mostly Coast football players paid 60 cents an hour ) turned an Army movie theatre into an auditorium and concert hall ; a service club into a 500-seat gymnasium ; an Army chapel into a facility for theatre productions and student / staff weddings ; a military storage building into a library ; an Army PX into a student center ; a battalion headquarters building into an administration building ; and several cadet barracks into student dormitories and married student and faculty housing.

Likewise, the Germans, Italians, and Japanese had many obsolescent " infantry guns " in service ( short-barreled, low-velocity artillery pieces capable of both direct and indirect fire and intended for infantry support, similar in tactical role to mortars ; generally an infantry battalion had a battery of four or six ).

* A History of the 22nd ( service ) battalion, Royal fusiliers ( Kensington ), 1923

An regimental sergeant major maybe placed in charge of a battalion, brigade, division or service level.

File: A crew of an Egyptian ranger battalion waits to parade in their Jeep YJ light vehicle armed with a MILAN portable ATGM launcher during Operation Desert Shield. JPEG | Vehicle mounted launcher and missiles in Egyptian service during Operation Desert Shield, 1992.

ISBN 3-7759-0205-8 .</ ref > The Conseil d ’ Etat ( state council, i. e. government of Neuchâtel ) addressed him in May 1814 requesting the permission to establish a special battalion, a Bataillon de Chasseurs, for the service of his majesty.

On 1 June 1945, a second battalion of the regiment was mobilized for service in the Pacific theatre of operations, designated as the 3rd Canadian Infantry Battalion ( 48th Highlanders of Canada ), CASF.

Patrick Houston Shaw-Stewart ( 17 August 1888 – 30 December 1917 ) was an Eton College and Oxford scholar of the Edwardian era who died on active service as a battalion commander in the Royal Naval Division during the First World War.

In October 1968, Tiger Force's parent battalion was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation by President Lyndon B. Johnson, which included a mention of Tiger Force's service at Dak To in June 1966.

In October 1940, as part of a reorganisation of the Commando formations, the unit was amalgamated with No. 8 ( Guards ) Commando into a single special service battalion known as the 4th Special Service Battalion, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Laycock.

In March 1941, the special service battalion organisation was discontinued and the Commando establishment was set at 470 all ranks, with a Headquarters Troop of 80 officers and men and six Troops of three officers and 62 other ranks.

1860 – four infantry battalions, four batteries of garrison artillery ; July, 1861 reinforcement – three infantry battalions, one field artillery battery, and personnel to bring the existing garrisons ' units to strength ; " Trent affair " reinforcement – eight infantry battalions, five batteries of field artillery, eight batteries of garrison artillery, three companies of engineers, various service and support elements, and the headquarters staff ; the grand total in British North America by New Year's amounted to 14 infantry battalions ( elements of one battalion and part of the headquarters staff were unable to land in Nova Scotia because of the North Atlantic winter ; the staff officers involved had to land in Boston and travel overland to Montreal via the U. S .); six batteries of field artillery ; 12 of garrison artillery ; and three of engineers, plus the various headquarters, service, and support elements.