I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job.
The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.
If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe.
When I get the morning report on security, I call those battalions in the regions where there are problems.