Sentence examples for a platoon for from inspiring English sources

He then commanded a platoon for several months, when the regiment was stationed along the Maginot Line, before being promoted to the rank of Captain in January 1940 and joining the staff at Allied Headquarters.

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.

He commanded a platoon for a short period, and was then attached to the command post of Field Marshal Lord Gort during the Battle of France, where he oversaw the evacuation of Brussels as well as the beach at De Panne during the evacuation of Dunkirk.

Now for me to go to a meeting it takes four MRAPS or similar tank-type vehicles with a platoon of soldiers for protection.

As part of the obscure task of "discovery" — providing documents relevant to a lawsuit — the studios examined six million documents at a cost of more than $2.2 million, much of it to pay for a platoon of lawyers and paralegals who worked for months at high hourly rates.

He admits that his "lust for silence is only the point man for a platoon of other worries".

In this paper, the design of an energy-based controller for a platoon of nonholonomic vehicles is presented and its performance is analysed for the case of random time delays in the network.

So, find me a division...I would settle for a brigade (indeed, I would even settle for a platoon) of Saudis who are fighting alongside the American-led coalinion in Syria or Iraq to vanquish ISIS.

Were it scooped out, revealing the remains of the great sloping wall, it would form a suitable base for a platoon of troops, caps on bayonets, and a 38-gun salute to one of the great public works in New York history.

This paper presents the design of a longitudinal control system for a platoon of vehicles.

The proposed formulation is applied to the road traffic dynamic for a platoon of Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAVs).