A canal separated the platoon from the village.
I went out on several patrols with a platoon from Delta Company.
In September, soldiers in a platoon from Charlie Company were accused of beating up Iraqi prisoners.
It also transferred the entire platoon from the Kalandia refugee camp outside Ramallah and compelled it to undergo retraining.
But they didn't, and 10 days later insurgents pulled off another ambush of a platoon from the 173rd.
On a recent patrol, a platoon from Second Battalion's Company D entered Salar and found it silent.
Every time a platoon from 1-32 pathrough townugh they, they stopped to chat with storekeepers and to buy trinkets and candy to give to the street urchins.
On Sunday afternoon, Captain Matthew Warner led a platoon from Company A of the 16th Engineer Battalion to look at possible reconstruction projects in southern Karbala.
"Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor mechanized platoon from the US Army 3rd Infantry".
One night recently, First Lt. Leonardo Flor's platoon from the new Stryker Brigade conducted a raid against a group suspected of recruiting insurgents.
