To ease the tension, Gideon said: "I got separated from my unit.
Separated from their armored unit by the force of circumstances, they had been standing guard over this vast, empty panorama for three weeks now.
Right here, outside the school gates, I remember seeing a soldier who'd got separated from his unit and been shot, lying in blood.
They could play along and pretend to be Norwegians separated from their unit, but so much could go wrong with that approach.
During the ensuing confrontation Huma is separated from his unit.
Various circumstances lead Alphonse to separate from Rictor's main unit.
Just two months before, he said, a soldier had been separated from his unit while buying a soda near the real Baghdad.
On July 2, 1967, one friend's husband was separated from his unit during an ambush and was found dead the next day.
It was suspected that he deliberately became separated from his unit in order to be captured.
It made no sense, but he hoped there was only one, some luckless sap who somehow had managed to get separated from his unit.