At the end of every year, platoons of food professionals -- consultants, chefs, writers and research firms -- race to predict the trends that will influence foodies all over America and ergo the world.
Toward the end of my tour, my platoon got a new sergeant, Staff Sergeant Johnson.
Friction between the Marines and the police built until the sides came to what the staff sergeant called a standoff, with a platoon of Marines at one end of an outpost facing a platoon of Afghan officers at the other, and Marine and police supervisors meeting in the center to negotiate.
A fire engine and about three police cars pulled up to the end of the pier, and a platoon of people came running toward me".
Seven Section of 9 Platoon, 2/14th Battalion, remains the most highly decorated section in the British Empire, its members having received a Victoria Cross, one Distinguished Conduct Medal and four Military Medals by war's end; the platoon also holds the distinction of the largest death toll in the Kokoda Campaign.
As a foot soldier tromping through Germany at the end of the Second World War, Brooks was the platoon cutup; he sang all the time and was never one to brood about the dead bodies around him, or the prospect of becoming one of them.
He subsequently took part in the Aitape Wewak campaign, commanding a platoon until the end of the war.
And Mr. Stone, the director of "Platoon," "Wall Street" and "J.
Indeed, a number of Platoon's early finds are now signed to major labels.
Without loss of generality, we place the sender paralleling to the center of platoon Z.
