Sentence examples for platoon strength from inspiring English sources

To any locals who care to keep Han Dynasty around: show up in platoon strength and demand an eleven.

There were bodyguards in platoon strength in front of the Senator and behind him as he walked.

Over the last week, a smaller vanguard, in platoon strength of about 30 soldiers each, had taken up six positions along the border.

"They tend to fight in numbers of 20 or so at most, platoon strength," the general told the assembled defence correspondents in London.

The hills were believed to be occupied by an Italian force of around platoon strength.

They established platoon strength posts in Nevesinje, Trebinje, Gacko and Bileća, with their headquarters also in Bileća.

Enemy attacks up to regimental size against garrisons of platoon and company strength were turned back by Corps troops.

Simultaneously, other elements of the VC 1st Regiment probed the southern and western end of the garrison, now held by Captain White's 1st and 3rd Platoons, to test the strength of allied defenses in that part of the garrison.

Overall, the Australians had lost the operational strength of a platoon, while the Viet Cong had effectively lost a company; arguably though it was questionable if such attrition would achieve any long-term gains in Phuoc Tuy for the Australians.

The rest of us are spot starters and platoon players, but that's our strength.

Since it arrived here at full strength in early March ,nearly half the platoon has received Purple Hearts for combat wounds, and the unit has lost 10 of its original 39 members, with 2 killed and 8 seriously wounded.