Sentence examples for operations platoon from inspiring English sources

A Marine Corps court of inquiry, scheduled to convene in November in the killings of at least a dozen Afghan civilians last March by a special operations platoon after its convoy was attacked, will focus only on the actions of two officers in charge, a defense lawyer said yesterday.

The Marine Corps announced yesterday that it would convene a court of inquiry to examine the circumstances surrounding the killings of several Afghan civilians by members of a Special Operations platoon in a remote area of Afghanistan near the Pakistan border in March.

The 30th Company was issued with four mortars and 70 mortar shells for their attack on Camp Holloway, and were reinforced by one combat engineer platoon, a special operations platoon and a local force company of Gia Lai Province.

In November 1941, during Operation Crusader, his platoon was attached to the headquarters of the 5th Infantry Brigade for security.

COMBAT OUTPOST SABARI, Afghanistan — Just about anything can knock an American platoon's operations off-course.

For gallantry on an operation in which his platoon came under fire in East Belfast, he was later awarded the Military Cross.

To prevent guerrilla supplies from north of the Rompin River from reaching the food denial areas to the south, covered by Operation Cobble, an RhAR platoon under Lieutenant David Heppenstall was posted to the area directly south of the river midway through the month.

The commanding officer of the transport halted loading operations when he saw the platoon on the dock with Reckless.

BAGHDAD — "You're hearing a lot of booms out there," Lt. Ryan P. Alexander told his soldiers, briefing them ahead of their platoon's anticipated operation as mortar fire and explosions rained on Baghdad early on Sunday while Iraqis began voting in the parliamentary elections.

In Iraq, I commanded a reconnaissance platoon, the Marines' special operations force.

Nonetheless, after the attack, Maxwell assured me he'd be leading his platoon on its coming operations.