Infantry Groups News Today

The Battalion was established by Army Headquarters Operation Order 7 of 1973 to be effective from 01 September of that year

This year the 27th Infantry Battalion will be marking its 50th Anniversary this Saturday, September 2 with a parade in Market Square, Dundalk commencing at 10.30am.

I can say that russian army, regular army, infantry groups fight well. they even have food packs, which is expired few years ago so they dont have normal food. they dont have even water. >> reporter: your battalion. how many armored vehicles/tanks do you think you have destroyed? >> right now, um, more than 20. its not only tanks. its like tanks and other armored vehicle. >> reporter: does your battalion have an estimate for how many russians they killed? >> for now, we destroy almost 200 russia...

Troops, not more than ten people, with few grenade launchers, and some kind of clean-up group with rifles and machine guns. i can say the russian army, regular army, infantry groups fight well. they even have food banks which expired a few years ago so they dont have normal food. they dont have even water. >> reporter: your battalion. how many armored vehicles, tanks do you think youve destroyed? >> right now, more than 20. its not only tanks. it is tanks and other vehicles. >> reporter: does yo...

Regular army, infantry groups fight well. they even have -- um -- food packs which is expired few years ago. so, they dont have normal food. they dont have even water. >> reporter: your battalion -- how many armored vehicles/tanks do you think youve destroyed? >> right now, um, more than 20. its not only tanks. its, like, tanks and other armored vehicle. >> reporter: does your battalion have an estimate for how many russians they killed? >> for now, we destroy almost 200 russians, captured alive...

I can say that russian army, regular army, infantry groups fight well. they even have food packs which is expired a few years ago. so, they dont have normal food. they dont have even water. >> reporter: your battalion, how many armored vehicles tanks, do you think youve destroyed? >> right now, more than 20 -- its not army tanks. its like tanks and other armored vehicles. >> reporter: does your battalion have an estimate for how many russians they killed? >> for now, we destroy almost 200 russia...