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airborne troops

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Those ground units whose primary mission is to make assault landings from the air. See also troops.


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In 2004, the unit carried out a mock exercise involving the capture of a coastal island in which the unit set up an "electronic interference system," followed by the arrival of armed helicopters and airborne troops.
He contrasts the German decision to limit the number of airborne troops in an operation following the invasion of Crete in 1941 with the Allied recognition that airborne forces were best employed in significant numbers on large scale decisive operations.
(d) Immediate embarkation of airborne troops previously alerted to pre-selected targets.
 
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