Sentence examples for each platoon from inspiring English sources

As the battalion commander and the battalion command sergeant major looked out on the parade ground and saw a black sergeant standing in front of each platoon and a black first sergeant in front of the entire company, you could see the shock in the officers' eyes, the sergeants said.

Each platoon is so far limited to two trucks, so you won't run into huge convoys of linked trucks taking up miles of roadway.

Each platoon also had a section of 2-inch mortars.

One man from each platoon was designated as a sniper.

Each platoon comprised 36 men in three squads: two assault squads and one heavy weapons squad.

Each platoon adopted a similar formation, with two sections forward and one back.

The Australian Army allocated a PIAT (which was also known as Projector Infantry Tank Attack in Australian service) to each infantry platoon in its 'jungle divisions', which differed from the standard British organisation, from late 1943.

Autonomous vehicles can also closely follow each other, in platoon fashion, improving synchronisation with traffic signals to avoid stop and start delays.

The ten of us listened like a platoon, each of us armed with a plastic bin, a very, very securely fitted lid, a pocket mirror, and a hook, though "hook" is really not the word for it.

"Best job I ever had," they tell each other as a platoon of SS soldiers lay siege to their home.

In the U.S. Army the rifle company in 1945 had a strength of 6 officers and 187 men and was composed of a company headquarters, three rifle platoons of three squads each, and a weapons platoon in which were placed light, crew-served weapons for close-fire support.