Sentence examples for a platoon of five from inspiring English sources

In the race for individual honors, a platoon of five jockeys led by JERRY BAILEY was bearing down on MIKE SMITH for the riding title.

The 2004 Raiders used a platoon of five runners (Wheatley, Crockett, Justin Fargas, J. R. Redmond and Amos Zereoue) who all rushed for between 100 and 500 yards and caught between 10 and 40 passes.

After three years, Loch was leading a platoon of thirty-six in raids against the Vietnamese.

This multilevel model is simulated for two scenarios of normal and faulty situations in a platoon of four IAVs.

At the age of eighteen, he was assigned a platoon of thirty men, and wore a kilt to work.

He had served in Afghanistan between 1983 and 1985; a paratrooper, he led a platoon of thirty men after his commanding officer went down.

Special Forces teams typically have 12 members, sometimes fewer, and Sergeant Bales's unit might have been as small as a platoon of two dozen soldiers.

A platoon of ten vehicles is placed on a straight single lane road 5,000 m long.

A couple of years ago a project at RWTH Aachen University in Germany operated a platoon of four trucks spaced at 10m (33ft) intervals.

The battalion was strengthened by the addition of a battery of five 120 mm mortars, six 105 mm howitzers, three 76 mm ZiS-3 guns and a platoon of 82 mm recoilless rifles.

At 5 00 a.m. the Vinica Hill positions were reinforced by the Sports Company (composed of Zagreb University Faculty of Kinesiology students) and a platoon of 82 mm mortars attached to the 3rd Battalion of the 110th Infantry Brigade.