Sentence examples for platoon who from inspiring English sources

Yet he was the only member of the platoon who survived the Somme.

That shook the younger soldiers in the platoon, who had protected themselves with an inflated sense of invincibility.

All of which is a problem for Nantz and his platoon, who have been sent to rescue civilians trapped in the West Los Angeles police station.

Soldiers in my platoon who have deployed to Iraq report that the children here are even hardier than their Iraqi counterparts — and that is saying a lot.

3.50: It is probable that it was Lieutenant N, the Commander of Mortar Platoon, who aimed at and shot Michael Bridge.

Anything is fair game, and anybody who gets upset is as pathetic as the women in her old platoon who couldn't hack Sandhurst and quit.

Two thirds of the way into Human Acts, a victim of the torture carried out during the 1980 Gwangju uprising in South Korea remarks of the Korean platoons who had previously committed atrocities in Vietnam: "Some of those who came to slaughter us did so with the memory of those previous times".

Machot acted as a guide of sorts, arranging Pelton and Freccia's rendezvous with Machar through a series of endless satellite-phone calls to old contacts and rebel platoons, who would eventually guide the group to the deposed vice president.

But the Tories' main tools will allegedly be voluntary and religious organisations Burke's "little platoons"—who, they argue, know more about, say, helping drug addicts than the government does.

"Young Marines need a platoon commander who can manage uncertainty," said Maj.

"He is a true patriot," said First Lt. Mordechai Sorkin, a platoon leader who worked alongside him.