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  • The credibility of their earlier resistance to Special Reconnaisance has been undermined so this will probably now go ahead.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • And speaking of keeping things in the proper perspective, here's a shot of the Earth and Moon, together taken by a camera aboard the Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter from 142 million miles away.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • He was assigned to 1st Light Armored Reconnaisance

    Gulf War II 2004

  • Reconnaisance showed no Federation ship in the area.

    Pawns and Symbols Majliss Larson 2000

  • Several police units and members of Five Reconnaisance Battalion based at Phalaborwa were involved.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • South Africa's Reconnaisance Unit, wearing Swapo uniforms, killed civilians and South African Defence Force soldiers during the border war, the

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Mr Howell, from Durban, said he was representing a group of about seven, most of them former members of One Reconnaisance Commando in

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Two former members of the SADF's elite Reconnaisance unit were on Wednesday jailed by the Cape Town Supreme Court for an effective two years each on charges of possessing and distributing AK47 assault rifles.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • The air division is to assume a new role, that of "Nuclear Strike Reconnaisance" in the NATO forces in Europe and is being equipped with the F-104-G strike fighter aircraft and armed with a small tactical atomic bomb.

    The Future of Canadian Defence in the Nuclear Era 1963

  • -- Reconnaisance is used to designate the work of troops or individuals when gathering information in the field.

    Military Instructors Manual Oliver Schoonmaker

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