kill team

kill team (plural kill teams)

1. (military) A small group of combatants that work together to attack an enemy.
   • 2001, Don C. Hall, Annette R. Hall, chapter 24, in I Served, Victoria, Canada: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 239:

     If we had contact with the enemy, I would direct the action from the center of the kill team, which was set up closest to the trail, with two teams on the flank fifteen feet away—one on the left flank, one on the right flank, and the last team behind us to cover our rear.

   • 2008 January–February, First Lieutenant Ken Segelhorst, “Small-Unit Kill Teams and IED Interdiction”, in Lieutenant Colonel Shane E. Lee, editor, ARMOR, volume CXVII, number 1, Fort Benning, Georgia, USA: U.S. Army Armor Center, →ISSN, page 26:

     One method of bringing the fight to the enemy is to employ small-unit kill teams along main supply routes (MSR) and alternate supply routes (ASR) where enemy activity is most prevalent.

   • 2013, Soren Knox, chapter 3, in On Causal Shores: Palimpsest Veil and Ananke Protocol, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 88:

     She felt the astral concussion of the shooters' killing intention through the RV link as the kill team breached his office door and fired into their illusory targets.

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