What is "paratroop"

Usage examples of "paratroop".

That young Paratroop Officer you started with, Lieutenant James, stuck it out.

It was new to combat but it had been organized and trained by a veteran paratroop battalion from the Italian campaign.

Two officers stood beside it, a paratroop captain and an Army Air Corps colonel.

Army was tougher, paratroop school more so, but what you did off duty was your own business.

Vacuum tubes and parachutes simply went ill together, and fragile radios had cost the experimental paratroop arm dearly earlier in the war.

He had been killed while serving with the paratroop battalion in the western Sinai, caught in the crossfire of an Egyptian ambush at the Mitla Pass.

That morning he had told Anna he was volunteering for the paratroop brigade, an elite unit which took the most casualties in time of war.

He took a paratroop refresher course after the 1956 war, and his parachute failed to open all the way on a jump.

Both the commander of the Syrian paratroop brigade and the Syrian minister of information are personal friends.

The breakthrough toward el Arish was going so swiftly there was no need of a paratroop drop behind enemy lines.

Bunkers and houses were taken two or three times as one paratroop platoon after another fought its way through the breach and the Jordanians moved back through the trenches into the houses, which came to have names of their own for the paratroopers: the house of the burning roof, the house with the pillars, the house of the yard.

The paratroop battalions in Jerusalem were put on buses again and sent north, along with all other available troops from the southern and central fronts.

And the paratroop colonel took part in a failed coup attempt and then escaped to Baghdad, only to reenter Damascus clandestinely with the help of Iraqi agents, disguised as an old peasant woman, to be immediately arrested and tried and shot, all within twenty-four hours.

Edgar Johnson, a recently retired paratroop general, and Roy Hallis, a semiretired CIA agent.

Previous reports had stated that the island was unsuited for paratroop landings, and the descent was a surprise.