On that first day of school, my fellow platoon-mate from 2nd Platoon Charlie Troop 1-40th Cavalry and one of my best friends, Alex Hoyle, was walking beside me.
"I'm just sitting in the theater, enjoying it, and I'm not thinking, 'I did this.'" All his life, Mr. Lee said, he was used to being the youngest person in his peer group: at school, in his Army platoon, as a writer.
And there are memoirs such as The Fortress by Raleigh Trevelyan – which echoes Graves and Blunden in depicting the experience of an unusually sensitive and intelligent 20-year-old, barely out of public school, commanding an infantry platoon at Anzio, where the fighting for some weeks in early 1944 was as brutal as the Somme.
Why else would they support a system of more than 500 local governments, each supporting its own separate little platoons of school administrators, $110,000-a-year chiefs of seven-person police departments, planners, mayors, even public works departments, as if the badge on the truck made any difference on how well your Christmas tree gets picked up.
Therefore its use is generally limited to particular settings like schools or army platoons, for example [ 22].
Gary was the scene of a significant early-20th-century development in public education when William Wirt established the work-study-play school, popularly known as the platoon school, designed to attract underprivileged children.
When he received his high lottery number and went off to Yale Law School, I was leading a platoon of high school dropouts west of Danang.
The platoon visited several schools, an electricity power substation, a water purification plant and the main hospital.
And by age 16, she's made her way to Manhattan, an early graduate from an alternative high school doing battle with the platoons of cockroaches in a Hell's Kitchen apartment she shares with her older sister.
The principal, Genie Calibar, marched in and out of the main building and up and down the sidewalks, covering the school perimeter like a commander inspecting her platoon.
