The phrase "a platoon which" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific platoon and providing additional information about it.
Example: "The army deployed a platoon which was specially trained for urban warfare."
Alternatives: "a platoon that" or "a platoon who".
Three or four squads make up a platoon, which has 20 to 50 soldiers and is commanded by a lieutenant.
He won the Military Cross after leading a platoon which, although outnumbered, captured a vital bridge in Normandy, along with some of the enemy.
(A slightly larger unit is a section, which consists of 10 to 40 soldiers but is usually used only within headquarters or support organizations). Three or four squads make up a platoon, which has 20 to 50 soldiers and is commanded by a lieutenant.
The 1944 war establishment for a British platoon, which contained 36 men, had a single PIAT attached to the platoon headquarters, alongside a 2 inches mortar detachment.
He immediately volunteered to join a different platoon, which had been ordered to counterattack.
The battalion had half of the required number of troops in its Headquarters Company, half of a communications platoon, and half of a heavy weapons platoon, which was armed with six obsolescent M9A1 Bazooka rocket launchers, two 75mm recoilless rifles, two 4.2 inch mortars, and four 60mm mortars.
The goal of this paper is to develop an optimization method for the velocity of the platoon which creates a balance between the different performance factors.
Among the vanguard were Company K and an accompanying Afghan Army platoon, which remained alone in their area of the Taliban stronghold for the second day, engaged in off-and-on gun battles from 8 30 a.m. until just before sunset.
But in recent weeks it has still managed to pull off a string of spectacular attacks in Mogadishu, culminating in the ambush and elimination of an entire Burundian peacekeeping platoon, which, despite official denials, appears to have caused the death of more than 60 soldiers.
Not a sermon like "Salvador" or "Platoon," which projects adolescent macho metaphysics about Good and Evil onto the same subject; not a genocidal romp like the Indiana Jones epics.
In Friday's episode, Stults has to coach his platoon, which includes an entertainingly odd set of recruits, when they take on a fierce bunch of Marines in an annual game that the base commander, Donald Cody Keith Davidd), takes very seriously.
