Sentence examples for own platoon from inspiring English sources

"He wants his own platoon," Sergeant Williams said.

"There are characters who are articulating problems that I saw were actually really big problems in our own platoon.

"Pathway to Glory is set in WWII and enables players to create and control their own platoon of soldiers in historically accurate missions and to engage in hybrid real-time battle with other gamers from around the world.

The Chinese quickly overran the company, but Takahashi had tried to hold together first his own platoon, and in time the entire company, if for no other reason than to buy time for other units just south of them.

(2006) show that individuals who were being trained in different platoons in the Swiss Army had higher levels of cooperation and had expected more cooperation from members of the same platoon and when they were given the opportunity to punish defection of third parties punished more harshly if the defection affected a member of their own platoon.

He is killed by his own platoon in Vietnam.

He did a great deal of detail work himself, drawing his own orders, and sometimes training his own platoons".

Eminent citizens and elected leaders formed their own platoons, each bringing 24 volunteers; three or four of these 25-man troops made a company.

This left Andrew with his own small platoon-size reserve, which was used in a failed counter-attack.

Why else would they support a system of more than 500 local governments, each supporting its own separate little platoons of school administrators, $110,000-a-year chiefs of seven-person police departments, planners, mayors, even public works departments, as if the badge on the truck made any difference on how well your Christmas tree gets picked up.

Blankets have been strung over the windows to try to foil enemy snipers, while the platoon's own snipers and Stryker vehicles outside try to monitor Iraqis who live nearby.