Sentence examples for platoon area from inspiring English sources

Dispiriting though he found the atmosphere in the platoon area, Eriksson went on, there were traces of conscience there.

He was confident, he told me, that he stood a better chance of finding help there than in the confines of the platoon area.

In the weeks immediately following Mao's death, Eriksson's home continued to be the platoon area, and his routine consisted of patrols — search-and-destroy by day, ambush by night.

On November 22nd, Meserve, Clark, and Manuel, weary from their five-day stint (Rafe was still hospitalized), had scarcely dropped into their foxholes back in the platoon area when they were ordered to appear at Captain Vorst's command post — a hootch somewhat larger than Reilly's but equally bare.

Arriving at the platoon area, Eriksson told me, he felt as though he had reached the promised land; the anxiety in which he had lived the past two days yielded to what he described as an almost tangible sense of safety.

"And this," he continued, sweeping his hand over nearly a thousand square kilometers, "is our platoon's area of operations".

In the middle of the night, the platoon fortified the area, eventually completing a rough enclosure where the men could sleep and eat.

While Christy would end up clarifying that he had not actually seen Gibbs cut it off, agents searching F.O.B. Ramrod did discover two fingers, each wrapped in cloth, hidden near the Third Platoon's living area.

On the following afternoon, November 17th, the members of the newly formed patrol met in a corner of the platoon's headquarters area, near the village of My Tho, where, relaxed as they stood or sat on the ground, they listened to a briefing from their leader, who was seated on a low stool.

By nightfall, the platoon was sweeping the area on the far side of the bridge, preparing to settle in.

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.