Sentence examples for platoon set off from inspiring English sources
As soon as 1st Platoon set off, the insurgents struck with a devastating L-shaped ambush.
Captain Palmer Winstanley, commanding L/Cpl Roney's platoon, said that night insurgents set off a large bomb and launched an attack with small arms fire.
I never really cared for him much, and he started in on Shep, and that set off the platoon sergeant.
Using a list of HVTs (high-value targets) provided by the Americans, the platoon is setting off to find and detain the listed individuals.
A 13-man squad of the 3rd Platoon of Company K, known as Kilo Company, set off before dawn on Nov. 19 from its Haditha headquarters, Fire Base Sparta, to help replace some Iraqi Army troops at a combat outpost about three miles to the south.
"Put on a serious face, show them you are soldiers, treat the people with respect," the platoon commander, Second Lt. Abdul Matin, 24, ordered his men as they set off on foot through the streets.
I called out, "Saddle up," handed my carbine and pack to my platoon sergeant, lifted Boggs off the ground, slung him over my shoulder, and set off up the hill.
"They could be used to set off a bomb," explained Lt. Stonie Carlson of the Army, a platoon leader.
Others set off fireworks.
