Sentence examples for In platoon from inspiring English sources

In Platoon, the movie that had made Stone's name the previous year, Charlie Sheen as a GI in Vietnam had two role models: the dull, Christ-like good sergeant (Willem Dafoe) and the charismatic bad sergeant (Tom Berenger).

It's like watching Willem Dafoe copping it in Platoon, but with less Adagio For Strings and more Ken Bruce.

To any locals who care to keep Han Dynasty around: show up in platoon strength and demand an eleven.

There were bodyguards in platoon strength in front of the Senator and behind him as he walked.

When their troops deployed to Helmand in 2006, 16 Air Assault brigade was parcelled out in "platoon houses" across the province.

Stone again drew on the trauma of the Vietnam War in Platoon (1986), for which he won another Academy Award, this time for directing.

The proposed solution is based on the symmetric bidirectional control of the in-platoon vehicles and wave-absorbing control of the platoon ends.

"Police, in platoon-like numbers, are staging in front us".

Lance Corporal Albert further said that the issue has in some cases created a divide in platoons and squads.

If Charles LeDray does not have little, nimble-fingered elves working in platoons around the clock under his direction, then I don't know how he does it.

Driverless lorries are to be tested in "platoons" on British motorways as part of a government drive to bring major improvements to journeys.