Sentence examples for platoon from inspiring English sources

A sergeant, he took temporary command of his platoon after the senior NCO was killed before his eyes.

There was a time in 2007, in between Chris Kyle's deployments, when half my platoon was trapped behind a house while two Iraqi insurgent machine gunners pinned us down.

"Platoons would need to transmit their status to the intersection and the signal change would need to be advanced or delayed to treat the platoon as a single long vehicle," said Alan Stevens, chief scientist and research director at transport firm TRL.

She was further down the street with a platoon of canvassers, some day-tripping students and local volunteers.

Signals couldn't be allowed to change midway through a platoon, or it would leave stragglers behind.

When word broke several years back that Quentin Tarantino was working on a second world war romp in which a platoon of Jewish American soldiers set out to kill Hitler, not everyone was convinced it was a good idea.

The defence secretary, Philip Hammond, proposes they form their own units, which will be deployed as a company or platoon in future conflicts, marking a major cultural shift in the way we operate in the field.

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

By the evening of D-day he had rejoined his platoon, crossed the Channel and was back with his unit.

"Either the platoon could signal that it's cleared the intersection or there would need to be infrastructure sensors to check the whole platoon is through".

After service as a platoon commander in the Far East, he attended staff college in Leningrad and went to Hungary as a young major.