Sentence examples for platoon which from inspiring English sources

Three or four squads make up a platoon, which has 20 to 50 soldiers and is commanded by a lieutenant.

I grew up watching movies like "Platoon," which is all about the innocent soldier being dehumanized by the horrors of war.

The site was apparently left unsecured, however, and by the time Sergeant Foster's platoon, which has expertise in dealing with chemical weapons, arrived in the evening, he said, the containers had been looted.

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Among the vanguard were Company K and an accompanying Afghan Army platoon, which remained alone in their area of the Taliban stronghold for the second day, engaged in off-and-on gun battles from 8 30 a.m. until just before sunset.

In Berlin, on Saturday, while promoting his new movie The Monuments Men – based on the second world war platoon which rescued and returned thousands of artworks stolen by the Nazis – Clooney said it would be "very nice" if the marbles went back to Greece.

That convoy used a new automated driving technology called platooning, which connects trucks using Wi-Fi, sensors, GPS and cameras.

By linking vehicles and highways together, one possible payoff would be a concept known as "platooning," which involves driving cars almost bumper-to-bumper.

The uniformed platoons, which include captains, lieutenants, sergeants and other officers, will be riding customized white scooters decorated with blue department decals and the department motto.

"The education and theatre sectors have come closer together in recent years," Waters tells me in a break from rehearsals for Little Platoons, which opened on 19 January.

"We are planning trials of HGV platoons – which enable vehicles to move in a group so they use less fuel – and will be in a position to say more in due course".