His 2009 postseason was better — Kendrick hit.263 (five for 19) with a home run and a triple in six games against the Red Sox and New York Yankees — but he did so in a second base platoon with Maicer Izturis.
The actor Bill Pertwee played more than a satellite character in Dad's Army, the perennially popular BBC sitcom about a hapless Second World War Home Guard platoon on England's south coast.
Their politics range from the wounded liberalism of "Coming Home" and "Platoon" to the wounded conservatism of "The Deer Hunter and Rambobut" butheyey nonetheless agree that the wounds are there, to be healed, avenged or perhaps reopened.
They sent the cover platoon home with the injured, and remained in their place to wait for Zur.
We're introduced to Ella as a little girl who loves her simple rustic life with her pet mice and her adoring parents (Ben Chaplin and Hayley Atwell) – although it's one of those simple rustic lives that requires a stately home and a platoon of servants.
She shared the four-bedroom home with a platoon of cousins whose parents had emigrated overseas, promising to return to collect their children eventually.
If all goes according to the Pentagon's plan, this tiny perimeter — home to an Afghan platoon and two Marine Corps infantrymen — contains the future of Afghanistan.
Anti-war literature such as "Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo", "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Remarque, '"If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home" by Tim O'Neill and "Platoon" by Oliver Stone should also be read and watched.
This meant going to platoon headquarters — the home of four squads, and only a few minutes' walk from company headquarters, where there were officers who outranked Reilly, the platoon's lone lieutenant.
In the weeks immediately following Mao's death, Eriksson's home continued to be the platoon area, and his routine consisted of patrols — search-and-destroy by day, ambush by night.
