Sentence examples for command a platoon from inspiring English sources

An air traffic controller, she will command a platoon of them.

This is phase one of the officer selection process: young men and women who pass here go on to Sandhurst, emerging 11 months later as second lieutenants fit to command a platoon of 30 soldiers.

He was a pretty fair high school football player, but his grand plan was to graduate in May and command a platoon.

He has commanded a platoon in battle, served as supreme allied commander in a time of war, and worked on behalf of peace in the Middle East.

Within a week of leaving, I was in Northern Ireland commanding a platoon.

The citation further stated, "During the offensive of the Marines, on November 3, 1942…Lieutenant Moore was commanding a platoon.

He commanded a platoon on the front lines of the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

Lieutenant McLaughlin, who is now a lawyer in Boston, commanded a platoon of tanks that led the Marine advance on Baghdad, and his descriptions are brutal.

A few years later his unit, the 8th Marine Regiment, went into the fight at Guadalcanal, where he commanded a platoon of 37 mm gunners.

At Saipan, Elrod commanded a platoon of 75 mm halftracks, but he was riddled with shrapnel from an enemy artillery shell that took him out of the war.

His initial postings in Europe's fourth largest army were in Macedonia, where he commanded a platoon, then a tank battalion, then a brigade.