Synonyms for task force

I suppose they ran afoul of a Merokian task force, but there's nothing to go on.

"That will be Satterfield and his task force," Jeff told the Chafis.

They had a pretty good idea that we knew where our task force was.

Craig guessed she was part of a task force scouting the south Pacific.

Engineers, chemists, agronomists, all of us—we're the task force.

The colonel paused, half turned to glance at the commander of the task force, and then faced the pilots again.

And so they were among the first to see the faint shapes of the task force low down on the horizon.

The colonel stopped and grinned apologetically at the Admiral in command of the task force.

Perhaps they sighted our task force and radioed word to their base before you put the lot of them out of commission.

Dawson just nodded, and let it go at that as he gave his attention to getting back to the task force as quickly as he could.