| 100% | EMBED | 5 | Journalist with a military unit |
| 75% | EMBED | 5 | Journalist in a military unit |
| 67% | EMBEDDED | 8 | Attached to a military unit, as a journalist |
| 57% | BATTALION | 9 | A military unit |
| 55% | MATTDRUDGE | 10 | Journalist with a widely read "Report" |
| 55% | SAS | 3 | Initially a military unit |
| 55% | LEGION | 6 | Many a military unit |
| 54% | BEATREPORTER | 12 | Journalist with a particular field of coverage |
| 52% | IFSTONE | 7 | Journalist with a weekly newsletter from 1953 to 1971 |
| 52% | COMMAND | 7 | To have authority over a military unit |
| 52% | ONEONECOMMANDER | 15 | Officer in charge of a military unit |
| 52% | ARMYANTS | 8 | Six-legged insects with a military name |
| 52% | ARMOREDDIVISION | 15 | Military unit with mechanized forces |
| 51% | EMBED | 5 | Place within a military unit, as a reporter |
| 51% | TROOP | 5 | Collective noun for dogfish or a military unit |
| 50% | PLATOON | 7 | Vietnam War film whose title is a military unit |
| 50% | TASKFORCE | 9 | Military unit assigned to a particular mission |
| 49% | KATIECOURIC | 11 | Television Hall of Fame journalist with a January birthday (2 wds.) |
| 48% | BRIGADE | 7 | Large military unit with its own headquarters |
| 48% | WEBER | 5 | Physicist with a unit named after him |
| 48% | DRUGBUST | 8 | *Raid with a K-9 unit, perhaps |
| 48% | TESLA | 5 | Inventor Nikola with a namesake scientific unit |
| 47% | COHORT | 6 | Ancient Roman military unit; a school year group |
| 47% | AIRCRAFT | 8 | __ carrier, a military ship with a flight deck |
| 47% | GUAM | 4 | Pacific island with a U.S. military base |
| 47% | XXX | 3 | German physicist with a unit named for him |
| 47% | PARATROOP | 9 | ___ unit (military squad with a jumpmaster) |
| 47% | ENG | 3 | Class with a Classics unit: Abbr. |
| 47% | IHOPS | 5 | Units of a chain with links? |
| 47% | GERALDORIVERA | 13 | Radio and TV journalist with a degree from Brooklyn Law School: 2 wds. |