Sentence examples for a single platoon in from inspiring English sources

The book, which came out in 1948, the same year as Irwin Shaw's "Young Lions," is a brutal, naturalistic depiction of a single platoon in the South Pacific, with enough details about the sex lives of G.I.'s to bring a blush to the cheeks of not only Masters and Johnson, but a Kardashian or two.

For one year, Hetherington and Junger accompanied a single platoon on a tour of duty in the dangerous Korangal valley, in which the soldiers – horribly exposed, and with a knowledge of the terrain so far inferior to the enemy's that it was practically blindfold guesswork – had to build a forward outpost to establish their position.

Once Colley has recounted this complex back story, he narrows his focus to a single platoon, one of the 52 that fought in Germany in the final months of the war.

A single platoon of five Carden-Loyd Mark VI tankettes used by the Artillery completed the list of Dutch armour.

A single platoon of the regiment remained but the ARSK troops did not exploit the opportunity to destroy the bridgehead.

In preparing to shoot Lone Survivor, Schliessler was inspired by British-American photojournalist Tim Hetherington's war photography book Infidel, which details a single U.S. platoon, assigned to an outpost in the Korengal Valley during the war in Afghanistan.

By January, its American force was down to a single understaffed platoon.

Indirect connectivity in a platoon on a single lane when vehicles in this platoon are connected to each other; (2).

Contact (1985) was about a British platoon in "bandit country" in South Armagh.

Morris led a drone platoon in the Army and Wright has a private pilots license.

Theorem 4: The Indirect connectivity on a single lane when vehicles in a platoon with M constant speed levels are connected to each other is: p 1 c o n n e c t v i t y = ∫ v min v max f ^ v v e − λ ′ i − ∑ n = 0 k e − λ ′ i n !