military post


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Noun1.military post - military installation at which a body of troops is stationedmilitary post - military installation at which a body of troops is stationed; "this military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby"; "there is an officer's club on the post"
fort, garrison - a fortified military post where troops are stationed
military installation - any facility servicing military forces
military quarters - living quarters for personnel on a military post
outpost - a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
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In a word, this favored port combines advantages which not only fit it for a grand naval depot, but almost render it capable of being made the dominant military post of these seas.
The march to Aumale was fatiguing to Tarzan, whose equestrian experiences hitherto had been confined to a course of riding lessons in a Parisian academy, and so it was that he quickly sought the comforts of a bed in the Hotel Grossat, while the officers and troops took up their quarters at the military post.
The treaty in question provided, likewise, that the military posts occupied by the British within the territorial limits of the United States, should be surrendered.
Baquba / NINA /- A soldier was killed and another wounded in a terrorist attack on a military post between Diyala and Salahuddin.
It has also cut off a Turkish military post deep inside Syria as the deal to limit fighting in the region, which the Turkish troops were supposed to be monitoring, collapses.
19-year-old Hamlet Adamyan, leaving the machine gun, deserted directly from the military post. The company commander captain Tigran Hovhannisyan and private soldiers Rudik Kharatyan, Artem Veranyan and Radik Georganyan followed his example.
Cairo, June 4 (Petra) -- The Arab League condemned a terror attack that targeted a military post Monday evening in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, killing and injuring military servicemen and security personnel.
Among the many islets that make up Kinmen is Taiwan's tiniest military post, Shiyu Islet, which is a mere 0.007 square kilometers in size.
The earliest the Dherynia and Lefka crossings can open is early November if the Turkish Cypriots complete all the work on their side, including the removal of a Turkish military post from the Dherynia area, it was reported on Wednesday.
Referring to the Dherynia crossing in the Famagusta district, the source said that a manned Turkish military post has not been removed from the area, while at Lefka, in the north, the Turkish Cypriot side has not completed the technical works that need to be done for its opening.
During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, approximately 20 Syrian civilians were killed during an attempted military strike on an Israeli military post in the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan.

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