reconnaissance
reconnaissance mission

"I explained that we were on a special reconnaissance mission and showed them the pass."

Within the first year, she was assigned to reconnaissance missions.

I wasn't being threatened, at least not yet, and this was supposed to be a reconnaissance mission.

To tell the truth I was only supposed to take my patrol up river on a reconnaissance mission.

How can we be sure it was on a reconnaissance mission?

Taking advantage of his small size, he is successful on reconnaissance missions.

He'd asked for and gotten a reconnaissance mission over enemy lines.

The most they could provide was single planes for reconnaissance missions.

Several other reconnaissance missions are under way in eastern Afghanistan.

But the reconnaissance mission here indicated just how difficult combat could be under such conditions.