Sentence examples for serving as a platoon from inspiring English sources

He is an infantry officer and deployed to Iraq serving as a platoon commander and company executive officer in Anbar and Nineveh Provinces.

At the time, he was serving as a platoon leader in a battalion of as few as six hundred and fifty marines, who had been given the impossible mission of trying to control an insurgent-ridden area the size of three counties in his native North Carolina.

One dreadful day stands out, the day that multiple bombers struck a village near the combat outpost where he was serving as a platoon sergeant.

Enlisting as a soldier in 1940, he saw action during the Second World War in North Africa, Greece and Crete, before being commissioned as a lieutenant and serving as a platoon commander in New Guinea during 1944 45.

Serving as a platoon commander in 1 Para, Mr Ellicock was flown to Sierra Leone in September 2000 to take part in the rescue of five soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment taken hostage by a rebel militia.

There is too much apathy," says Paul Rieckhoff, the executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, who served as a platoon leader in Iraq.

He served as a Platoon Leader and Company Executive officer with the First Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, serving sixteen months in Iraq.

After graduating, Ms. Fulton served as a platoon leader in a signal company in Germany, and later was commander of an intelligence company.

He had joined the Marines through officer candidate school the next year and served as a platoon leader in combat in Vietnam.

A graduate from Sandhurst, Peake received a commission with the Army Air Corps in 1992 and served as a platoon commander with the Royal Green Jackets in Northern Ireland.

I served as a platoon leader in the U.S. Army at the height of the surge in Dora, one of Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods.