What is "rear echelons"

Usage examples of "rear echelons".

Many of them, especially rear echelons, escaped across the Potomac.

Watching the main screen, it now seemed to him as if the rear echelons were in full rout.

It would have come as news to rear echelons in all the various armies as well - was that the guys at the sharp end carried it all on their backs.

They had been assigned to Victory for over a year now with operations mostly in secondary theaters and rear echelons.

They doubled back, circling in behind Naja's trapped squadrons, and falling on their rear echelons.

By this time the leading platoons had disappeared into the jungle, while the rear echelons were only just leaving the open beach and starting into the swamp.

That's why so many of them have volunteered to participate in this war, although I understand that the majority of them have to be kept in the rear echelons, employed in support and logistics.

Then a sudden shift along the Saxons' rear echelons signaled a new line of attack and Briton trumpets sang out a warning.

The beasts in the rear echelons of the Ascendant formation towed massive siege engines: towers and ladders, pallets of artillery shot rolling on squeaky wheels, vats of smoldering pitch, mounds of sapping gear.

Then, instead of reforming to mount a rescue operation, Cyntath Merwyn split his main strength north and south, creating two pincers which Terra's rear echelons broke one by one.

Let the collapses occur as close to the rear echelons as possible.

Those in the rear echelons were al-ready streaming back through Heckard's Cut.

Well, we've knocked out five Klingon warships, one of them a cruiser, and as we were hoping from the beginning, there's still a lot of damage that we can do in their rear echelons -- especially if we get away from the Organian quadrant before their reinforcements arrive.