The phrase "a platoon full of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a large group of people, typically in a military context, but can also be used metaphorically in other contexts to indicate a significant number of individuals with a common characteristic.
Example: "The event was attended by a platoon full of enthusiastic volunteers ready to help with the community project."
Alternatives: "a crowd of" or "a group of".
The late 1980s saw a spate of Vietnam War movies ("Platoon," "Full Metal Jacket," "Casualties of War") as filmmakers and the country began processing in earnest the consequences of that conflict.
When I was a kid, back in the days when people still rented VHS cassettes from Blockbuster Video, I watched a lot of Vietnam films: Deer Hunter, Born on the Fourth of July, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket – that great canon of senseless slaughter.
I think Zia could more easily save her village by rounding up a platoon of marines instead of colored objects.
Only 10 minutes inside the tiny village of Zangabad, 20 miles southwest of Kandahar, a platoon of American soldiers stepped into a poppy field in full bloom on Monday.
On the cobbled alleyways of Montmartre, as a busker warbled La Vie en Rose and street artists painted watercolours of the view over Paris, Master Corporal Jean-Claude had been up since dawn leading a platoon of soldiers on patrol in full camouflage and flak jackets with fingers resting lightly near the triggers of their assault rifles.
Authors assert that the Tsallis q value of a platoon of vehicles is limited to 3>q>1.
Check reported this story to Kean, and then sent a platoon of tanks with a platoon of infantry toward Haman to find out what had happened.
Indeed, São Paulo is so chock-full of tall buildings you might think a platoon of Manhattans had traveled to Brazil and overstayed their tourist visas.
Mr. Ermey, who went by "Gunny," played an even more nightmarish instructor in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987), about a platoon of Marine recruits deployed to Vietnam.
She had served in the UN mission in South Sudan, first as a legal officer, then as a Platoon Commander of an all-women platoon, a rarity.
