Sentence examples for a platoon from the from inspiring English sources

But they didn't, and 10 days later insurgents pulled off another ambush of a platoon from the 173rd.

For weeks, according to Army charging documents, rogue members of a platoon from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, floated the idea.

Similarly a platoon from the Welsh Guards, who lost their commanding officer Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe on July 1 days before the main phase of the operation began, suffered 19 injured out of 30.

This is the one and only time that the American military appears in Chandrasekaran's otherwise civilian story, but his description of the skirmish between a platoon from the Army's First Cavalry Division and Mahdi Army fighters is absolutely brilliant.

Reporters were among those roughed up when a platoon from the Metropolitan Division went through the park, firing 148 rubber bullets to break up what had been a peaceful and lawful rally.

One of the starkest incidents in recent weeks occurred on the evening of Jan . 18in the town of Tal Afar, a trouble spot west of the city of Mosul, where a platoon from the 25th Infantry Division was on a foot patrol.

Shortly after 10am, when they were limbering up to lug sandbags with a platoon from their regiment, the Household Cavalry, the Guardian spotted them incongruously without their usual heavy security detail and throng of onlookers and media.

The first clash occurred at Awala on 23 July, when a platoon from 'B' Company, under the command of Captain Sam Templeton, having destroyed the footbridge over the Kumusi River, engaged the Japanese on the far side of the river.

On Sunday afternoon, Captain Matthew Warner led a platoon from Company A of the 16th Engineer Battalion to look at possible reconstruction projects in southern Karbala.

A platoon from another company helped rally the remnants of the leading company, which was reinforced by the 1/4th Battalion Royal Scots and 1/8th Battalion Scottish Rifles when the position was consolidated.

A platoon from "C" Troop also made an unsuccessful patrol from the western end of the MLR during which it suffered six casualties from Japanese machine gun and rifle fire.