Sentence examples for assigned a platoon from inspiring English sources

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

Then on the Iwo Jima invasion, I was assigned to Platoon Leader of a 75 man loading party on a hospital ship.

By 16:00 it had successfully captured the last of the intermediate objectives assigned to it and a platoon from B Company was pushed forward to assist in the clearance of the feature.

South of the pass, at dawn, First Lieutenant Houston M. McMurray found that only 15 out of 69 men assigned to his platoon remained with him, a mix of US and ROK troops.

They are then awarded the Trident (the official Navy SEAL symbol) and assigned to a SEAL platoon or SDV team, where they report for several more months of advanced training for specialty and unit-level skills.

Others assign a digital curfew.

Also assign a commander.

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.

He was a linguist assigned to my infantry platoon.

In 1955 I was a newly minted infantry second lieutenant, stationed in what was then the Panama Canal Zone, a platoon leader in a combat regiment assigned to guard vital installations around the Panama Canal and to train men in jungle warfare, should the United States Army ever need those skills (as indeed it did a decade later, in Vietnam).

His university background saw him assigned to an intelligence and reconnaissance platoon during the invasions of Sicily and Italy.