Sentence examples for platoon overseeing from inspiring English sources
There's a certain irony in a military veteran — one who ran a platoon overseeing three Pershing nuclear missiles in West Germany during the high-stakes craziness of the cold war — grousing about undue power.
Some platoon sergeants told the investigators that overseeing the wounded soldiers was equivalent to "taking a knee" and not as prestigious as being a drill sergeant or in a combat unit.
The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company was organized into three heavily armed platoons, which were overseen by a headquarters element of five men.
In his early 40s, he has stopped performing and has opened a huge studio in Shanghai, where he oversees a platoon of assistants in the production of an object-based art.
They have imagined platoons of Chuck Yeager-type stalwarts grimly enduring all hardships, or teams of bionic and vaguely asexual crew members overseeing freezers of embryos that can be defrosted and gestated as needed.
According to the Army summary, the deaths that are now being investigated most vigorously by Army officials may be those from Afghanistan in December 2002, where two prisoners died in one week at what was known as the Bagram Collection Point, where interrogations were overseen by a platoon from Company A, 519th Military Intelligence Battalion, from Fort Bragg.
He might never have become the action director who oversaw the movement of horror-movie-style splatter into other genres such as the western (The Long Riders is bloodier than The Wild Bunch), the platoon movie (Southern Comfort) and even science fiction (we often forget that Hill co-wrote and produced Alien).
