Sentence examples for platoon was trained from inspiring English sources

An ex-marine with a Sunday-school side part and Chiclet teeth, Besh had marketed himself as a family man, a good dad and a loving husband, a churchgoer and a patriot who liked to mention offhand that the aroma of toasting almonds for trout amandine was similar to the scent in the air that his Desert Storm platoon was trained to recognize as a chemical attack.

Given two weeks of training and a bunch of rifles, any reasonably fit group of 16 athletes (the size of a Seal platoon) can be trained to do harm.

The key in casualty survival lies in correct and timely psychological first-aid for which every section and platoon commander should be trained.

(2006) show that individuals who were being trained in different platoons in the Swiss Army had higher levels of cooperation and had expected more cooperation from members of the same platoon and when they were given the opportunity to punish defection of third parties punished more harshly if the defection affected a member of their own platoon.

In contrast, British Indian Army units had British officers in all senior command posts; their own Indian Viceroy's commissioned officers were trained to only a troop or platoon level of command.

As the platoon was not intended, nor trained, for combat, they were told to avoid direct engagement with the Germans.

The TST reactor proportion for persons with >3 weeks of exposure in the recruit-training platoon was substantially lower than shorter duration of exposure in the rehabilitation and separation units (RR 0.19, 95% CI 0.05 0.66, p = 0.0032).

A designated Rhodesian platoon, widely referred to thereafter as "the Rhodesian Platoon", was formed under Brady at the KRRC training camp at Sheerness, on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.

His platoon was undisciplined; the lieutenant in charge was removed from his post; one of Bergdahl's friends from training camp was killed by a roadside bomb.

This is where Bowe's platoon was".

His platoon was pinned down by three machine guns.