Sentence examples for our platoon from inspiring English sources

For that year, our platoon, like many others in Afghanistan, chased a ghost of an enemy.

But that's what you signed up for, our platoon sergeants said.

We would be seeing action, our platoon sergeants told us, most likely on the front lines.

He told them of a story of a commander who had addressed our platoon.

When our platoon leader (the only officer in the platoon) left Iraq for a new assignment, we got along just fine when the senior sergeant in our platoon took his place.

Our platoon was able to function without an officer because of the quality of the noncommissioned officers the Army produces.

OUR motley platoon of snowmobiles was chewing up a rippled meadow high on the southwestern flanks of the Gore Range near Vail, Colo., four bundles of motorized mayhem zigzagging across a brumal landscape.

Our entire platoon would drive all our vehicles to this one location, park, dismount, sit around and wait for hours and hours for something, anything, to happen.

Given our dark clothes and camouflage, our entire platoon could melt silently into the trees in a few seconds.

"In this new war, our enemies' platoons infiltrate our borders quietly, blending in with visitors and tourists and students and workers," Mr. Ashcroft said.

Our pathfinder platoon found this route, and that's really what made it possible".