Sentence examples for platoon up from inspiring English sources
Sgt Frank Edward Stubbs, 1888 - 1915 Awarded the VC for action during the landings at W Beach. His task on landing at Gallipoli was to lead his platoon up the south side of hill 114 to the tree on top of the hill, where he was to join up with D company.
Three times, Charlton led the platoon up the hill, in the face of intense Chinese mortars and infantry fire.
Most of SEAL Team 3 GOLF platoon showed up in Boston.
When my platoon formed up on my last morning in Iraq, he stood, steeling himself, at a respectful distance.
He added that virtually every member of his platoon wound up in college, not jail, on return.
Our skirmish went on for 20 minutes; finally an infantry platoon came up behind us and chased the North Koreans into the valley.
His platoon picked up a group of 20 officers from a supposedly pro-Islamist village where it had dropped them off an hour earlier.
OUR Marine platoon stayed up late to listen on a hand-cranked shortwave radio as Colin Powell testified before the United Nations about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
A group of marines from 2nd Platoon rushed up to a house on a corner lighted by dim street lamps and prepared to break through the front gate, their M-16's raised.
ON that November day in 2006, when First Sgt. Edwin Rossman Jr., formerly of HellRaiser Platoon, stood up at the funeral of Staff Sgt. Greg McCoy, his role in the lives of the wife and two young boys left behind by his fallen Iraq War comrade was respectful and narrowly defined.
Members of the Second Platoon took up positions within two homes inside the village of Lanzerath about 200 yards to the southeast.
