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.
Having backed himself into a corner, Carsen's final gesture is a ridiculous pantomime in which the Feldmarschall makes his long-awaited return, leading a platoon of troops outfitted with Faninal's weapons; Octavian will die in the war, just like the Cherubino of Mozart and Beaumarchais, the character on which he was modelled.
Restrepo, a war documentary following a platoon of US troops in Afghanistan, won a prize at the Sundance film festival this year.
Later in the day, obviously tipped off about a cache of guns, a platoon of American troops rumbled up Rasool Street to the gates of the shrine and began searching sidewalks and cars.
The festivities have included a platoon of Revolutionary War troops camping on the Great Hill and a "BioBlitz" in which bird-watchers, bat-freaks, lepidopterists, ichthyologists, and many other -ists spent twenty-four hours combing the wilds of the Park for flora and fauna.
Having secured a commission from Vanity Fair to spend a year following a platoon of US troops in the heavily contested Korengal valley in north-eastern Afghanistan, with a unit "considered the tip of the spear for the American forces," Junger had the idea to film his time there from the beginning.
The platoon leader telephoned G Company, 5th Cavalry, which informed him a platoon of 60 South Korean troops would come to reinforce the mortar platoon.
Pushing across the river with one platoon of troops, Carlson encountered a small group of Japanese who shot and severely wounded the native scout leading the Marine column.
One showed a platoon of Soviet chieftains reviewing their troops as the marched past the Kremlin in 1945, & the guide pointed out Stalin, Kalinin, & Kaganovich, among others.
In December 1968, Sergeant First Class Howard, his rank at the time, was in a platoon of American and South Vietnamese troops who came under fire while trying to land in their helicopters on a mission to find a missing Green Beret.
He refused to take along the reinforced platoon of troops considered the minimum escort, because an escort would slow him down.
