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squadron ['skwɑdrən]

n. 骑兵营, 分遣队, 小舰队

squadron

[ noun ]

a cavalry unit consisting of two or more troops and headquarters and supporting arms

<noun.group>

an air force unit larger than a flight and smaller than a group

<noun.group>

a naval unit that is detached from the fleet for a particular task

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Squadron \Squad"ron\ (skw[o^]d"r[u^]n), n. [F. escadron,
formerly also esquadron, Sp. escuadron, or It. squadrone. See
{Squad}.]
1. Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a
body of troops drawn up in a square. [R.]

Those half-rounding quards
Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined.
--Milton.

2. (Mil.) A body of cavalry comprising two companies or
troops, and averaging from one hundred and twenty to two
hundred men.

3. (Naut.) A detachment of vessels employed on any particular
service or station, under the command of the senior
officer; as, the North Atlantic Squadron. --Totten.

{Flying squadron}, a squadron of observation or practice,
that cruises rapidly about from place to place. --Ham.
Nav. Encyc.

In 1981 she was named the first woman maintenance squadron commander in the Strategic Air Command at McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas.
Ships carrying a Marine expeditionary unit from Okinawa, equipped with a squadron of assault and cargo helicopters, have arrived in position near the Saudi peninsula.
A mission can keep an SR-71 in the air for 12 hours, entering hostile territory and leaving it to refuel perhaps four or five times, says Orcutt, SR-71 squadron commander at Beale.
The Pentagon has also sent 22 F117A Stealth fighter-bombers to unspecified bases, 14 long-range F-111F bombers to Incirlik airbase, in southwest Turkey, and another squadron to Spain.
Veterans from the Yorktown arranged for the plane to be in the parade and also tracked down members of Bush's old torpedo squadron, Air Group VT 51, to ride along with it, said Joseph Sharkey, assistant director of the veterans group.
It was retired in 1944 and now hangs in the Science Museum. The Gloster Meteor fighter entered squadron service in 1944, the first jet aeroplane in the world to do so.
The squadron leader was given a two-week sentence Tuesday.
Goupil, a former Crusader squadron leader, said that the last other country to use Crusaders, the Philippines, retired its last ones two years ago.
Australia will scale down its only overseas military base Saturday when it begins withdrawing an air force fighter squadron from Malaysia.
Bentsen was a major in the Army Air Corps and served as a bomber squadron commander during World War II.
A second squadron was sent in December and by January 1959 the SAS had put the rebels to flight, The Observer said.
Col. Hermann Schade, executive officer of the Hermann Matern squadron.
All were part of a search-and-rescue squadron based at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
The British Defense Ministry additionally announced Monday that a squadron of U.S. F-16 fighters based at Bentwaters in eastern England is to be disbanded.
Saxon was a pilot in the Army Air Corps, leading a bomber squadron in combat flights over Germany during World War II.
It was at the leading edge of stealth technology," says Graham, who commands the wing that includes the sole SR-71 squadron, stationed at Beale Air Force Base, 110 miles northeast of San Francisco.
The Air Force tried to retire the Blackbird squadron last year, but was overruled by Congress.
British Aerospace wants Malaysia to take a squadron of Tornado bombers under a leasing deal through the RAF.
He was commander of the lead boat in the four-craft PT boat squadron that evacuated Gen.
The Cohens still employ a squadron of attorneys for at least a half-dozen pending suits.
The tankers in Thursday's mission traveled across New England to a point 190 miles east of Cape Cod where they rendezvoused with the day's "receivers," a squadron of fighters taking off from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina.
Faraj Al-Gathian, one of four squadron leaders in the Eastern Fleet that patrols the Persian Gulf, said Wednesday.
France has sent three squadrons of interceptors and fighter-bombers and another squadron has been commited.
Most were ridden out of the squadron after this fatal character flaw was exposed, but one senior pilot used his connections in Washington, finished his tour and later got promoted.
King said the Tornado squadron would provide a round-the-clock capability to strike against armored forces.
The helicopter squadron was tracked within city air space flying at 500 feet, a day after Pasadena's governing board adopted a minimum altitude of 700 feet for nighttime helicopter formations, said city director Rick Cole.
And Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said a squadron of 12 CF-18 jets would be sent to fly cover for three Canadian warships en route to the gulf.
They were put into their own fighter squadron and had the best kill ratio in the war.
"When I was elected in 1982, I learned I could no longer hold a mobilization billet even though I'm a member of a combat-ready patrol squadron," Carper said.
Overhead, a squadron of small planes wheel and swoop in heart-stopping aerobatics.

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