Sentence examples for from platoon from inspiring English sources

(Mr Winfield's lawyer says he deliberately aimed wide, and didn't kill anyone).We know this story arc's Vietnam version from "Platoon".

From platoon to brigade, US Soldiers and Marines continue to work incredibly hard and in almost all cases they achieve positive results.

"For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write — like myself — college is useless beyond the sophomore year," William Styron wrote to his father in 1946, after returning from Platoon Commander School in Quantico, Va., to resume his studies at Duke.

From the testimony, it seems Sergeant Akbar was a classic case of what the Army calls "a problem child," shunted from platoon to platoon over five years, eventually being stripped of his duties and made to mop and sweep floors as a sergeant, even though such work is typically privates' work.

Just after 9/11, for instance, I used to wear a sweatshirt with the heavily armed characters from Platoon on it, and the phrase "Search and Destroy," under which I had scribbled the name "Osama Bin Laden".

Moreover, the surrounded Soviet forces were not destroyed, as some of the encircled troops escaped in groups ranging in size from platoons to full rifle divisions.

And he takes comfort from talking to friends from his platoon about those killed.

And these words did not initially come from my fellow soldiers but from my platoon leader, my sergeant, my company first sergeant".

When he does so, he'll bump into some of the old hands from his platoon, including Sergeant Richie "Stricky" Strickland (front row, second from left).

She said he began changing after his second tour of duty in Iraq, and worsened after he returned from his third stint there, when he lost two good friends from his platoon.

A few days later, soldiers from another platoon shot and killed three more men.