1. All Japanese troops in the Ogasawaras were alerted and occupied their battle positions . 2. Every time the UN aircraft departed, the North Koreans reoccupied their battle positions . 3. As evening came on, Adam had his men sleep in their battle positions . 4. The tanks would take two days to move into battle position from their forming-up positions. 5. The army rarely camped at night without the alarm being sounded and men roused to battle positions . 6. They destroyed several enemy armored vehicles, some of them within only 75 meters of the battle positions . 7. Through the haze of smoke bombs, American soldiers scrambled to battle positions near the border with communist North Korea. 8. Also, she collected the arms from sanctuaries and homes, armed the women and put them in battle position . 9. At first light, around 0400 hours, the battalion emerged from the dugouts and took up its battle positions . 10. But as the years passed, battle positions were abandoned, armies retreated and refugees once driven from their homes returned.