Meanings of paratroop (paratroops) in English

Army units, including elite paratroops, were taking part in the fight.

He became a major in Israel's paratroops and a social worker.

Whatever this Sam Balon King did in the paratroops, it was something special.

The British arrived in Helmand a year ago with essentially a single battalion of paratroops.

He's twenty-five and he got the job here after a dishonorable discharge from the French paratroops.

I guess their paratroops cut the line.

On what became known as Bloody Sunday, paratroops had opened fire on an anti-internment rally in Derry.

British paratroops entered the town a year ago and fought here to nearly the last round of ammunition.

It could bomb his palace, take out his tanks, land paratroops on his airport and ship in reinforcements.

The officer in charge turned up, an ex-sergeant major in the paratroops, with silver-grey hair and a thousand-light-year stare.

He tried to enlist in the Marines and in the paratroops but was turned down because he was underweight.

This work on nonlethals was a response to "Bloody Sunday," when British paratroops shot dead thirteen civilians.

He served with the early paratroops in the British Army in the second World War, fighting in Germany and later in Indonesia.

Beppo feels the firm is in mortal peril from overspecialization-they should make other equipment for the mice paratroops besides miniature parachutes.

British paratroops were last night set to fly out to the Balkans to spearhead the international force ready to enforce the Kosovo peace agreement.

It was one of the paratroops, and he was fumbling with reloading a deadly looking submachine gun, a look of panic on his face.