What is "units"

Usage examples of "units".

The clubs, officer, NCO and enlisted, were overrun with activating units, and the town of Annville, which was the only civilian area reachable without a personal vehicle, was equally overrun with servicemen.

The commanders of the activated units would meet with their officers and work through a plan of activation.

The equipment would arrive, training schedules would be finalized and the units would begin to come together.

In time they would be sent off to war—rarely are units pulled from storage in peacetime—and the hard work of the formation would be forgotten in the harder work of combat.

And, although the personnel were theoretically barracked with NCOs nearby, most of these people were not even soldiers yet, much less units, and the senior NCOs, E-6s, -7s and -8s, were virtually absent.

Although combat silks were officially the daily uniform of Fleet Strike units, most personnel elsewhere in the battalion seemed to be wearing BDUs and field jackets.

In the case of the Earth, those units detailed to Terran defense were to be retained for their parent countries' usage, while still being under the Fleet's regulations and chain of command.

The Marine and Airborne units were or would soon be Armored Combat Suit units, mobile infantry units whose personnel fought encased in powered battle armor and wielded grav-guns that hurled depleted uranium teardrops at relativistic speeds or plasma cannons that could go through the side of a World War II battleship.

We're better off than the Line and Guard units from the point of view of company-grade officers.

We had, have, a critical suit shortage, the unit has not received its issue and only a few of the troops, ones transferred from other ACS units, have them.

Since time immemorial, units that were not properly supplied had found ways of obtaining the equipment they needed.

We are one of the special operations units your tax dollars have supported for years, so now you get to get some of your own back.

The treaty was nearly moribund, but the term was still used to indicate the units from "First World" countries.

And those units were halfway mutinous and engaging in almost daily riots.

Indiantown Gap did not present many amenities to the units forming there.