Sentence examples for a platoon in from inspiring English sources

While he was teaching, writing and researching military history, I was leading a platoon in Vietnam.

"No one would dramatize the real experience" of a platoon in Afghanistan "because it's too boring," he added.

Depending on how the spring unfolds, he could find himself in a platoon in center field with Kirk Nieuwenhuis.

It's a song about a platoon in the Second World War, but everyone knew who the big fool was.

He has commanded a platoon in battle, served as supreme allied commander in a time of war, and worked on behalf of peace in the Middle East.

A former Army captain with a shaved head, a square jaw and rapid-fire speech, he led a platoon in Afghanistan when he was 26.

"There were many defectors coming in to us every day," said Sohail, sitting with a group of men – in effect a military platoon – in a nearby village last week.

After graduating, Ms. Fulton served as a platoon leader in a signal company in Germany, and later was commander of an intelligence company.

The company surprised and overwhelmed a Chinese platoon in a village 1 mi north of the hill, killing six and capturing twenty.

Just a week before, a different platoon in the battalion had hit a mine while accompanying the Afghan police along a dirt road.

In the Unification War, he fought for the Independent Army, the "Browncoats", as a platoon sergeant in the 57th Overlanders.