However, on 9 September only three combat battalions and the headquarters were in Apulia.

In 1969 the make up of the base was 14% black, though the number in certain combat battalions was over 25%.

In the first place, every brigade deployed has for the most part only two combat battalions with it.

By April 2010, the combat battalion total had risen to 197 combat battalions.

These three independent "praetorian" security brigades are still building and only have six combat battalions between them.

He braced himself to speak up anyway; maybe they'd give him an actual combat battalion as punishment for his crime.

Compared to that, the prospect of leading a combat battalion straight at the Rebel trenches looked downrightdelightful.

Over his shoulder, he called to the major at the end of the line: "Call someone from a combat battalion."

"The combat battalions are off for the day, General," the major yelled back.

More than 2,500 haredim and other religious soldiers have served in a combat battalion set up in the late 1990s for ultra-Orthodox 18-year-olds.