The soldiers' 101st Airborne Division, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, Bravo Company, 1st Platoon staffed two traffic checkpoints and checked the area roads for improvised explosive devices [IEDs] -- homemade bombs.
I remained on the road with the platoon sergeant, Staff Sgt. Eric Elizey, and a medic.
"I love all of you like family, just as I love Corporal Amaya," said their platoon sergeant, Staff Sgt. Michael L. Hayes.
Rice found his platoon commander, Staff Sgt. William Langham, and they drove with Stege-moller to the hills.
IIs and a Panzerkampfwagen III of the staff platoon of the 1st Tank Battalion, stormed the Barendrecht bridge into the Hoekse Waard, but all of them were lost to a single 47 mm antitank-gun.
Further astonishment awaits at our palatial hotel, the George V, with its platoons of elegant staff, revolving doors, chandeliers, centuries-old tapestries and a painting of the sky where the ceiling should be.
JPMorgan Chase said even before last week's vote that whole platoons of its 16,000 staff in London might have to relocate if Britain split from the EU.
What better advertisement for Burkean conservatism, they say, than those "little platoons" of volunteers staffing the events across London?
Toward the end of my tour, my platoon got a new sergeant, Staff Sergeant Johnson.
He motions at the platoons of Secret Service agents and staff members taking their seats.
