The modern Italian Army still today contains crack regiments called Alpini.

He had recently been promoted to a reserve captain in the Ballantyne Scouts, one of the crack Rhodesian regiments.

Somewhere on the other side of the radio station was a Red Flame VIP and his bodyguards from Security's crack regiment.

They must be the select six of the kingdom's crack regiment.

With a crack regiment drawn from the other end of his line, de Bazelaire decided to throw in at dawn on the 8th one of those swift counter-attacks.

I would form this crack regiment out of officers alone - not a single private.

Here, as at Elandslaagte, they proved themselves worthy to stand in line with the crack regiments of the British army.

We've got crack regiments knocked down to the size of a couple of companies.

Rangars have only one trade--soldiering--and they soldier exclusively in the crack regiments.

Anyhow, this crack regiment of cavalry in the Prussian service still wore its own uniform; and, as you will see, that was another element in the fiasco.