Sentence examples for from a platoon from inspiring English sources

At Urus-Kert, Captain Sokolov organized the final defense of the hilltop, aided by a few soldiers from a platoon that had broken through rebel lines.

Rather than wait for the elevator, Dr. Lipkin ran up and down the back stairs to move from floor to floor, leaning into the doorways of labs and glass-walled offices to get updates from a platoon of scientists.

A few yards away, couples who have been protesting walk hand in hand … shambling wearily … Two young lads take their shirts off, wrap them around their heads and dance in front of a fire they've lit … just out of projectile range – they hope – from a platoon of police".

He quoted from a platoon commander's letter that stated: "My team's effectiveness is directly tied to its cohesiveness..

At 6.30AM – when anyone with the luxury of not having their home torn away from them was still getting up for work – the residents of Brixton's Rushcroft Road were preparing to defend their homes from a platoon of bailiffs.

The bulk of the force was made up of infantry from 'A' Company and a platoon from 'C' Company, 31st/51st Battalion under the command of Captain Henry Downs.

The second ambush was conducted a fortnight later and was set a little further downstream from the last one, this time by a platoon from C Company, occurring on 12 June 1965 and again resulting in heavy Indonesian casualties for no loss to the Australians.

After working their way through an olive grove on the northwest side of the Central Powers' rearguard position, they attacked from the flank, with a platoon of 51st Sikhs gaining the crest from the southwest.

According to the Army summary, the deaths that are now being investigated most vigorously by Army officials may be those from Afghanistan in December 2002, where two prisoners died in one week at what was known as the Bagram Collection Point, where interrogations were overseen by a platoon from Company A, 519th Military Intelligence Battalion, from Fort Bragg.

A platoon from "C" Troop also made an unsuccessful patrol from the western end of the MLR during which it suffered six casualties from Japanese machine gun and rifle fire.

The Australian Special Forces Task Group was built around 1 Squadron, with a platoon from the 4 RAR (Commando) and a troop from the IRR available to support the SASR. 1 Squadron operated in western Iraq where it was successful in securing its area of operations.