Sentence examples for platoon work from inspiring English sources

In the heat of battle, he and the other members of his platoon work as a nearly seamless unit.

There are echoes too of the finest post-Vietnam drama of them all, Peter Kosminsky and Leigh Jackson's harrowing Warriors from 1999, which showed the terrible fallout of war on a British platoon working as peacekeepers in the former Yugoslavia.

As its own Marines stumbled wearily across friendly lines, much of the Afghan platoon that worked with them was straggling behind, unable to keep pace.

The unruly intellectual ambitions that animate both Mr. Stone's most vigorous work — "Platoon," "Wall Street," "J.F.K".

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

Officials said they are now increasing the readiness standards at the platoon level and working on a plan that would require the guard divisions to be combat ready within 150 days.

Cavendish's point was that he had never expected to have a platoon of riders working hard to set him up for bunch sprints, but he had expected some protection for his front wheel as anxious rivals tried to baulk his burst for the line.

When they reached Basra, King worked alongside platoon sergeant Ian "Picky" Pickford.

But when I hear the same stories and the same issues being raised by a civilian at U.S.A.I.D. and an Army platoon leader who both worked on war zone reconstruction projects, it seems that there are universal principles that apply to service of many kinds.

Lasting change is usually the work of platoons rather than individual soldiers.

To support the airbase and the garrison, a platoon was diverted to working on the docks and roads.