Sentence examples for called the platoon from inspiring English sources

A medical evacuation helicopter had to be called, the platoon moved to safety, the mission drastically altered.

Bringing together his ideals and ideas from Dewey and the scientific management movement, Wirt pioneered a new organizational structure called the platoon system, which was fully implemented for the first time in specially designated schools in 1908.

The Cold War was on, the draft had been revived, but if you joined an attractive USMC program called the platoon leaders class, you spent summers training at Quantico.

His aim may have been social justice, but he brought to it a conservative's enthusiasm for what Burke called "the little platoons".

The Volvos — both the car and truck companies, that is, which have different owners — call the idea "platooning" and see it as a bridge to traveling by driverless cars.

She learned to run for a bunker upon hearing the cry, "incoming!" The platoon called it her "hoof training" and "hoof camp".

In March his company introduced software for the Palm operating system called Platoon Warrior that is intended to replace the bulky administrative books used by Army officers.

— If the name had not been used for a film of an entirely different genre, the sequel to "Moneyball" might be called "Platoon".

I remember dropping my canvas duffle bag at the foot of my bunk in Charlie Company, and almost immediately being called into my platoon sergeant's office.

These 50-man platoons (called "fifth platoons" because they were one more than the four that generally constituted a company) would then be assigned to established white infantry outfits.

You were not particularly happy when pilots you flew with called you Mommy Platoon Leader.