Sentence examples for Join a platoon from inspiring English sources

Any car wishing to join a platoon would specify its desired destination, making it possible to identify a nearby platoon heading the right way.

"You would drive onto the freeway, take your hands off the steering wheel, and your car would join a platoon of vehicles moving at high speed along a highway.

So once a car has joined a platoon these systems make it relatively easy to stay in line.

But he considered that boring so he asked to work with an infantry unit, joining a platoon that had been in Afghanistan since March.

ON a sunny, crisp November day in 2008, three American civilians joined a platoon of United States soldiers on a foot patrol in Maiwand District, a flat, yellow patch of earth crowned by black-rock mountains in southern Afghanistan.

He immediately volunteered to join a different platoon, which had been ordered to counterattack.

A Durham University graduate, Bland was an officer in the 2nd Battalion the Royal Anglians, which he joined as a platoon commander after training at Sandhurst.

They join a unit of the Seventh Algerian Infantry Regiment in the platoon commanded by tough Sergeant Martinez, introduced as a pied noir but revealed as being half-Algerian.

Arriving here in early November, Private Evans joined a 52-member platoon for 16 weeks of combined basic training and instruction in his specialty, combat arms, as a cavalry scout, the soldier who does reconnaissance for his outfit.

The story that has been told so far — by Morlock in his confession and by various publications that relied heavily on the more sensational accusations from interviews hastily conducted by Army special agents in Afghanistan — is a fairly straightforward one: a sociopath joined the platoon and persuaded a handful of impressionable subordinates to join him in sport killing as opportunities arose.

The Cold War was on, the draft had been revived, but if you joined an attractive USMC program called the platoon leaders class, you spent summers training at Quantico.