reconnaissance
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At a nearby residential complex, investigators found a radio with a list of call signs of junior commanders in airborne companies, including the head of a reconnaissance platoon: Uspekh.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Interest in the expedition prompted New Zealand's Air Force Museum to publish, external previously unseen reconnaissance images of Nikumaroro on Friday.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
His job was ensuring commanders had smooth communication with their units and access to feeds from reconnaissance drones and surveillance cameras.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Their arrests were brought forward after the main suspect carried out a reconnaissance visit to the Fondation Maeght.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Our reconnaissance planes are tarted up in a lovely salmony-mauve camouflage to match the clouds.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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There will be reconnaissances to Trent Bridge to have a look at Australia's opener, Ed Cowan, who has signed for Nottinghamshire for the early part of the season.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2013
As an intelligence officer, Mowat is particularly vulnerable when he delivers messages and undertakes reconnaissances.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Taylor was harder on himself than anyone, making personal reconnaissances by Jeep, risking injury unnecessarily by sitting stubbornly at a staff table while shells fell in the courtyard outside.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Since then there have been three major reconnaissances of nerves.
From Time Magazine Archive
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On the 22nd there were twelve reconnaissances which revealed the presence of large bodies of troops moving in the direction of the British front, and did much to dissipate the fog of war.
From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
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