This will include a new infantry battalion and new units of engineers and communications experts.

By then a lieutenant-colonel, he commanded an infantry battalion, but the second experience proved less inspiring than the first.

The infantry battalion, the basic unit of organization in field operations, includes five companies of four platoons each.

Here an infantry battalion was stationed, but so close to the airfield that the paratroopers landed near its positions.

It consisted of one infantry battalion, one border battalion, and one infantry company.