Sentence examples for platoon of engineers from inspiring English sources

Gen. Swing formed a special unit Gypsy Task Force comprising the 1st Battalion of the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, G and I Companies of the regiment's 2nd Battalion, an artillery battery from the 457th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion, and a platoon of engineers and miscellaneous signal and medical detachments.

He said that China -- even with its platoons of engineers -- lacked the companies that produce the raw materials for silicon wafers and the skilled labor to build and run advanced chip factories.

On Sunday afternoon, a platoon of combat engineers from the First Armored Division drove through a southern neighborhood of Karbala to gauge infrastructure needs, signaling that the soldiers were trying to move forward with reconstruction projects after nearly three weeks of intense urban warfare in which 4 American soldiers died and at least 250 insurgents were reported killed.

Let me explain: At 22, I took command of a platoon of combat engineers, my first real job as a Marine Corps officer.

Its army dipped a tentative toe into such operations in January last year, when it sent a platoon of infantry to guard Chinese engineers and doctors belonging to a peacekeeping force in South Sudan.In Mali, where the peacekeepers are to help contain an Islamic insurgency in the north, China might well be tempted to do the same.

The 3rd Brigade Special Troops Battalion (3rd BSTB) provides various combat support functions for the brigade, specifically one platoon of military police and one company each of engineers, military intelligence personnel, and communications specialists.

Amazon is a company of engineers.

I'm from a family of engineers.

Institution of Engineers, Australia (IE,Aust) Policy Unit.

It's mostly a bunch of engineers.

A platoon, including engineers, managed to fight their way to the bridge.