amphibious troops

Drop a major desantniki force near a usable port, then funnel in all the amphibious troops they can manage.

Inflatable boats were often used to transport amphibious troops from high speed transports and submarines.

The first "professional" Marine units were already task-trained amphibious troops, but instead of being disbanded, were kept for the Crown's needs.

They grab a likely piece of terrain, and these amphibious troops can come ashore and consolidate too damned fast for the defenders to react."

As the islands fell to American amphibious troops, Halsey Powell and other ships protected the task force from air and submarine attack.

Additionally, in order to avoid being caught in the artillery preparation, the paratroopers would jump only after the amphibious troops had reached the Rhine's east bank.

There is close cooperation and cross-training between its amphibious troops and the MARCOS - and a rivalry exists between them.

The ship's primary purpose is to assist during calamities, such as hurricanes, but it can also serve as a command centre for amphibious operations, and transportation of amphibious troops.

Lagunari, amphibious troops of the Italian Army (Esercito Italiano), of the Serenissima Regiment based in Venice.

"The Russians have also launched a general offensive all along the line to pin the Royal Norwegian Army while they bring in their amphibious troops to support the Brekke paradrop.

On November 21, the 89th Division participated in the Kerch-Eltigen Operation, an ambitious Soviet military operation involving the landing of amphibious troops onto the Kerch Peninsula.

It was pointed out that the number of amphibious troops in the United States was inadequate and that the Marine Corps was undermanned due to expansion problems in the Navy's budget.

On 4 September the U.S. 5th Fleet's amphibious troops were designated the V Amphibious Corps and placed under Marine Corps Major General Holland M. Smith.

Portugal invades Conakry, in the Republic of Guinea, 400 amphibious troops attacked the city and freed hundreds of Portuguese Prisoners of war kept there by the PAIGC.

The fore-bearer regiments of the The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, The East Surrey Regiment (Villier's Marines) was initially raised as amphibious troops.

The UXV is also reported to be capable of launching unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) from a port on its underside and, in addition, will be able to deploy amphibious troops, just as many destroyers today.

After the flotilla made it across the Strait, the Chinese air force would perform a close support role for the amphibious troops as well as a continuous carpet-bombing mission designed to soften up guerrilla resistance in the high mountains that formed Taiwan's backbone.

Connecticut delivered supplies to amphibious troops in Cap-Haïtien on September 5 and remained near Haiti for the next few months, supporting landing parties ashore, including detachments of Marines and sailors from Connecticut under the command of Major Smedley Butler.

In Tom Clancy's 1986 novel 'Red Storm Rising', about a hypothetical war between the Warsaw Pact and NATO, the Soviet invasion of Iceland is carried out by amphibious troops landed from a freighter named the 'Julius Fučík'.

Their extensive stance among the other empires of the Liao, Song, and Jin was attributable to their effective military organizations that integrated cavalry, chariots, archery, shields, artillery (cannons carried on the back of camels), and amphibious troops for combats on land and water.

The Russian Navy dispatched two task forces from Sevastopol, one allegedly to impose a naval blockade on Georgia, while the other, bearing amphibious troops and assisted by guided missile cruiser Moskva and smaller missile-warfare capable ships allegedly advanced to the coast of Abkhazia, to the small port of Ochamchira.