Sentence examples for seal platoon from inspiring English sources

He'd been working on it since 2007; after getting to know Luttrell and the families of the 19 SEALs killed in Operation Red Wings, he embedded with an active SEAL platoon in Iraq for a month.

I was then a 26-year-old Navy lieutenant, executive officer of a SEAL platoon assigned to the multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon.

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.

They are then awarded the Trident (the official Navy SEAL symbol) and assigned to a SEAL platoon or SDV team, where they report for several more months of advanced training for specialty and unit-level skills.

An ex-Ranger, whose unit was housed in Ramadi on the same base as Kyle's SEAL platoon, recently told me about the day that two Iraqi spies — both working for the Americans — reported being trailed by members of Al Qaeda in Iraq.

Last April, a SEAL platoon was first on the site of Ron Brown's plane crash near Dubrovnik.

I had done my first platoon in SEAL Team 1, was in my second platoon.

DOWNHILL BATTLE By taking rooms with windows facing the outside first, a platoon can effectively seal off a building and prevent any enemies inside from firing at friendly forces on the streets below.

Violent protests also sprang up in Kashgar, in southwestern Xinjiang, where the South China Morning Post reported many shops were closed, and the area around the mosque was sealed off by a People's Liberation Army platoon after confrontations.

In simultaneous raids that began on Thursday night and continued into Friday, several platoons of Seals, aided by Special Boat Units, Air Force Special Operations pilots and Polish commandos seized two oil-pumping stations and a petroleum metering station near Fao in southeastern Iraq.

His accusations formed the basis of multiple charges against several SEALs, which led to the court-martial of Lieutenant Andrew Ledford, the commander of the platoon that captured Jamadi, for, among other things, allowing his troops to assault the prisoner.