squadron

IPA: skwˈɑdrʌn

(obsolete) A body of troops drawn up in a square.
(military, historical, army) A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers.
(military) A body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and fifty men, and led by a captain or a major.
(military, navy) A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer
(military, air force) A tactical air force unit; consists of at least two flights; multiple squadrons make up a group or wing (depending on particular air force).
(US, military, U.S. Space Force) A spaceforce unit; multiple squadrons make up an operations delta or a support garrison.

Examples of "squadron" in Sentences

The silence from the chickenhawk squadron is deafening.
The king and commander of this hellish squadron is here described, [1.]
Not that I'd patrol with the half-blown reliners they call squadron leaders these days.
How is an airplane which has never flown to be in squadron service in that period of time?
With this object in view the life of a fighting squadron is planned by the squadron commander.
The squadron is based out of Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C., and is one of eight squadrons that make up Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3.
The Barbarian squadron is the all-woman piloted champ of the fleet, in no small part thanks to their mechanic Mac, who is an uplifted gibbon (part of a tribe of sentient apes that mixes with human society).
Indeed it has been proven that one of the most important instructions given to recruits on joining a regiment, a ship or a squadron, is the history of that unit, to inspire him with a sense of pride and responsibility.
You come down just above the enemy trenches, making certain that you are 200 or 300 yards behind, because the average man in a fighting squadron is not certain, to within 200 or 300 yards, exactly where our front line is and where the Huns are.