rear-echelon

“Well, give me some of those 17,000 men on the beach,” Puller said, referring to the rear-echelon engineering, supply, communications, and other specialized troops who had landed since D-Day.

Brotherhood of Heroes Bill Sloan 2005

“Well, give me some of those 17,000 men on the beach,” Puller said, referring to the rear-echelon engineering, supply, communications, and other specialized troops who had landed since D-Day.

Brotherhood of Heroes Bill Sloan 2005

Hollandia, however, was lightly defended with eleven thousand mostly rear-echelon enemy troops.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

As a rear-echelon ambulance driver behind the trenches of the Western Front in 1918, he had been safe from the worst of the fighting.

Last U.S. World War I veteran Frank W. Buckles dies at 110 2011

Hollandia, however, was lightly defended with eleven thousand mostly rear-echelon enemy troops.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan—The U.S. military should send rear-echelon support units home as it begins withdrawing from Afghanistan next month, before it draws down American combat forces, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.

Gates Seeks to Keep Pressure on Taliban Julian E. Barnes 2011

As a rear-echelon ambulance driver behind the trenches of the Western Front in 1918, he had been safe from the worst of the fighting.

Frank Buckles, last known World War I veteran, dies at 110 2011

Wheeler graduated from West Point in 1966 and served at the Pentagon and as a rear-echelon staff officer in Vietnam before leaving the Army as a captain in the early 1970s.

Ex-Army officer disoriented before death Paul Duggan 2011

As a rear-echelon ambulance driver behind the trenches of the Western Front in 1918, he had been safe from the worst of the fighting.

Frank Buckles, last known World War I veteran, dies at 110 2011

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan—The U.S. military should send rear-echelon support units home as it begins withdrawing from Afghanistan next month, before it draws down American combat forces, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.

Gates Seeks to Keep Pressure on Taliban Julian E. Barnes 2011