Meanings of special detachment in English

You're here on special detachment from Beijing, I hear.

A special detachment of MPs had been flown over from the States to provide security.

His dossier says he is an agent with the U.S. Justice Department, part of a special detachment to Homeland Security.

I also discussed this with the President and obtained authorization for Echo Team to roll as a special detachment of the Secret Service.

General Flood, at the time, had been in Korea, and General Campbell had been on a special detachment working with the SAS in Britain.

Each of the officers named either headed special detachments, columns of attack, storming parties, or detached guns, and all were conspicuous for conduct and courage.

Then also the products shipped to Paris were accompanied by special detachments of troops to prevent their being seized by the provincial authorities....

Troops from the Special Detachment 88 squad collect belongings from the house of a suspected militant after a raid in Jakarta October 27, 2012.