Sentence examples for a platoon of us from inspiring English sources
Their film observes a platoon of US infantrymen during an extended tour of duty at "Restrepo", a remote outpost high up in the dusty, sometimes snow-covered Korengal valley in Afghanistan.
Restrepo, a war documentary following a platoon of US troops in Afghanistan, won a prize at the Sundance film festival this year.
In 2007, the war photographer Tim Hetherington accompanied the journalist Sebastian Junger to Afghanistan's Korengal Valley – in the north-east of the country, and a scene of intense fighting – to follow, and photograph, a platoon of US soldiers.
A platoon of US soldiers blasted their way into a house in search of Habib ur-Rahman, a young computer programmer and government employee who they had been told by someone, somewhere was a secret Talibanist.
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien This is a novel, but I always shelve it with my reportage books, about a platoon of US soldiers in Vietnam, based on his own experiences in the 23rd Infantry Division.
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 ten of us listened like a platoon, each of us armed with a plastic bin, a very, very securely fitted lid, a pocket mirror, and a hook, though "hook" is really not the word for it.
While following a small platoon of US soldiers in Afghanistan's Korangal Valley, Junger was struck by their willingness to die for each other.
After our discussion, General Bande led us to the sand-bagged walls of his exposed outpost and introduced us to a platoon of female Peshmergas.
On my visit in 2013, the towering steel sculpture was guarded by a platoon of gruff soldiers from the Kurdistan Regional Government )KRG), who refused to let us in.
On my earlier visit in 2013, the towering steel sculpture was guarded by a platoon of gruff soldiers from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), who refused to let us in. .
