Sentence examples for Following platoon from inspiring English sources

We define the inter-platoon space as the distance between the last vehicle of the leading platoon and the first vehicle of the following platoon, and the intra-platoon space as the distance between the vehicles within the same platoon.

Hill's Southern Comfort, which follows a platoon of National Guardsmen trying to find their way through hostile territory, required arduous but rewarding shooting in the Louisiana bayou.

It follows a platoon of GIs on patrol in the rice paddies and jungles of south Vietnam, and during a brief – but sex-filled – furlough in Saigon.

For example, a wagonlike Lockheed Martin device that can carry more than 1,000 pounds of gear and automatically follow a platoon at up to 17 miles per hour is scheduled to be tested in Afghanistan early next year.

In the dangerous cat-and-mouse game he played, the one between the hunter and the hunted, Bishop Packard learned to leave his own men behind to kill enemy soldiers who were trying to follow his platoon to the ambush site.

10 P.M. (13) ARMADILLO (2011) Janus Metz follows a platoon of Danish soldiers through Helmand Province in Afghanistan in a film that has a lot in common with "Restrepo," the war documentary by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.

In the years that followed, a platoon of GM lawyers fought successfully to exclude the Ivey memo from scores of vehicle-fire lawsuits.

Well, I had been with Battle Company in 2005, and so I went back to the military and I said, "I want to follow a platoon from Battle Company for a whole deployment -- when they go back to Afghanistan".

Tonight his new film, Bravo's Deadly Mission airs on Channel 4. The film follows a platoon of US Marines as they are dropped into the middle of Taliban stronghold, Marjah, as part of Operation Mushtaraq.

Tonight his new film, Bravo's Deadly Mission, a Dispatches Special, airs on Channel 4. The film follows a platoon of US Marines as they are dropped into the middle of Taliban stronghold, Marjah as part of Operation Mushtaraq.

If someone had put the question to some general: "Okay, there's a couple of journalists who are going to follow a platoon for ten one-month trips," it's possible that that general could get uncomfortable with the idea, because we're going to see stuff that a journalist doesn't usually see.