Sentence examples for joined a platoon from inspiring English sources

So once a car has joined a platoon these systems make it relatively easy to stay in line.

ON a sunny, crisp November day in 2008, three American civilians joined a platoon of United States soldiers on a foot patrol in Maiwand District, a flat, yellow patch of earth crowned by black-rock mountains in southern Afghanistan.

Any car wishing to join a platoon would specify its desired destination, making it possible to identify a nearby platoon heading the right way.

But he considered that boring so he asked to work with an infantry unit, joining a platoon that had been in Afghanistan since March.

"You would drive onto the freeway, take your hands off the steering wheel, and your car would join a platoon of vehicles moving at high speed along a highway.

Arriving here in early November, Private Evans joined a 52-member platoon for 16 weeks of combined basic training and instruction in his specialty, combat arms, as a cavalry scout, the soldier who does reconnaissance for his outfit.

A Durham University graduate, Bland was an officer in the 2nd Battalion the Royal Anglians, which he joined as a platoon commander after training at Sandhurst.

He immediately volunteered to join a different platoon, which had been ordered to counterattack.

The Cold War was on, the draft had been revived, but if you joined an attractive USMC program called the platoon leaders class, you spent summers training at Quantico.

The story that has been told so far — by Morlock in his confession and by various publications that relied heavily on the more sensational accusations from interviews hastily conducted by Army special agents in Afghanistan — is a fairly straightforward one: a sociopath joined the platoon and persuaded a handful of impressionable subordinates to join him in sport killing as opportunities arose.

He had a sideline as editor of campanology magazine Ring-a-Ding Monthey and joined the platoon for only one episode, when Mainwaring took leave with an ingrowing toenail, which ended typically disastrously.