Sentence examples similar to get platoon from inspiring English sources

They've all got platoons of lobbyists swarming onto Capitol Hill.

Ask a squad of today's volunteer soldiers whether they like the idea of a draft, and you'll get a platoon's worth of answers.

"How did you get here?" the platoon commander asked suspiciously, while I eavesdropped.

"I wanted to get out of the platoon," he stated.

There's some funny stuff – a platoon all get herpes because they're using the same "pocket pussy".

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.

When Eriksson was able to state that he had put in for door gunner aboard helicopters, which could hardly be considered safe duty, the lawyer persisted in reminding him that "you testified you wanted to get out of the platoon".

I needed to get over to our platoon leader to let him know I had some guys wounded, one guy dead, and we needed to get a helicopter in there.

This first came home to me as a young platoon commander in Belfast in the early 1970s.My platoon got involved in a fierce gunfight – two of the enemy were killed, two of my soldiers were shot and one died.

The plan went awry when the 2nd Platoon got lost and missed a rendezvous with the 1st and 3rd Platoon, which were waiting for them near Mravince.

Three-quarters of my platoon got purple hearts.