A Sergeant, he was made a squad leader in the 3rd Platoon, and quickly impressed his unit's company commander with his natural leadership ability, and soon his squad was considered a model unit.
Their formations obscured their numbers and gave them flexibility, making it possible for the platoon to move quickly from multiple angles against any gunmen who attacked any of the fire teams.
When his fellow platoon members saw this, they quickly fell in step, not wanting to be shown up by one of their peers.
You grow up quickly commanding a platoon in the jungles of Borneo".
The veterans will "muster" at noon on Sunday at a high school gymnasium on the Standing Rock reservation, then "quickly form into platoons and companies" for anticipated confrontations on the front lines with several hundred state police, county sheriff deputies the North Dakota National Guard, and military vehicles originally designed for use in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But I also knew that if I kept walking with another platoon, I'd see Diana more quickly.
Mr. Borodiansky, the platoon leader in Amityville, remembers acting quickly when the Mother Superior at the Sisters of St. Dominic complained that his men could be seen walking around the base in their underwear.
A tense American soldier watched the crowd and radioed a message that quickly produced a rifle-clutching platoon.
But when the game required her to find a grenade launcher and dispatch a platoon of hapless robots she did so quickly and efficiently.
None of the four hit anything, and the Sergeant radioed the platoon command for artillery support, which was quickly granted; the coöperation, Eriksson recalled, pleased Meserve no end, since it implicitly conferred an importance on the skirmish.
