Sentence examples for forward platoon from inspiring English sources

At 21 30 the Chinese launched their first attack on the forward platoon of American tanks, which had been posted on the road without infantry support.

Although the 35th Infantry held all its original positions, except that of the forward platoon of G Company, 3,000 North Korean soldiers were behind its lines.

Although the initial moves were easily beaten back by automatic fire and mortars, a second Chinese assault an hour later succeeded in overrunning the right forward platoon.

Although Fisher's 35th Infantry held all its original positions, except that of the forward platoon of G Company, 3,000 North Korean soldiers were behind its lines.

A Company's forward observer, Lieutenant Neville Clark, a Citizens Military Force (CMF) officer, had moved to the forward platoon and proceeded to calmly direct artillery from the guns at Fire Support Base Giraffe on to the Viet Cong.

Believing that the battle may continue into the night, Gravener made the decision to pull 12 Platoon back in order to adopt a tighter company perimeter, lest his forward platoon be overrun and destroyed.

Each of the forward platoons covered a frontage of 100 m, with 4 Platoon under the command of Second Lieutenant John Sullivan on the left, and O'Halloran's 5 Platoon on the right.

The challenge was to protect the forward platoons as they withdrew from being followed up by the Chinese occupying the old B Company positions and from D Company's position after they broke contact.

Yet such lessons still had not been fully grasped by Australian Army training doctrine, and under pressure from Townsend to press on with the attack Mackay had given the order to fix bayonets and charge due to the proximity of his forward platoons to the Viet Cong.

The two forward Australian platoons subsequently lost contact with each other, while the left section of 4 Platoon was engaged by a 12.7 mm heavy machine-gun, and began to fall behind.

In this section, we will discuss the contributions to the available connectivity from indirect communication ways, which are further classified as multi-hop forwarding in a platoon and store-carry forwarding when no any instantaneous direct connection is achievable.