Sentence examples for it a platoon from inspiring English sources

Is it a platoon situation?

How many have been on it A platoon, a company perhaps?

By 16:00 it had successfully captured the last of the intermediate objectives assigned to it and a platoon from B Company was pushed forward to assist in the clearance of the feature.

It follows a platoon of GIs on patrol in the rice paddies and jungles of south Vietnam, and during a brief – but sex-filled – furlough in Saigon.

Its army dipped a tentative toe into such operations in January last year, when it sent a platoon of infantry to guard Chinese engineers and doctors belonging to a peacekeeping force in South Sudan.In Mali, where the peacekeepers are to help contain an Islamic insurgency in the north, China might well be tempted to do the same.

The platoon leader telephoned G Company, 5th Cavalry, which informed him a platoon of 60 South Korean troops would come to reinforce the mortar platoon.

It would serve a platoon of Marines.

It sounds bad: A platoon sergeant from another company in their battalion was shot in the thigh and abdomen.

It was before a platoon of little-known rookies rose through the depth chart to quietly help lift the team through the playoffs.

It sometimes has the acid-trippy, alienated feel of an Apocalypse Now or a Platoon; it sometimes affects the grandstanding, busily appalled humour of M*A*S*H; occasionally it strives for the grandeur associated with the theatre of 1939-45: there is a scene in which a tank mightily turns its barrel on a troublesome sniper that is lifted straight out of Saving Private Ryan.

It might be with a high-profile name, and it might be with a platoon that might give you something close to that end point anyway".