Sentence examples for such as platoon from inspiring English sources

The details illuminate an experience that had yet to be explored by movies such as Platoon, Hamburger Hill, Full Metal Jacket and the rest, of young boys smoking hash and listening to the Doors and watching Bob Hope cavort with Playboy bunnies in the countdown to their probable annihilation.

(Films that are critical from the jump and stay that way such as Platoon and Apocalypse Now get no military love and must scrounge up hardware in places equipped by the U.S. like Thailand and the Philippines).

The cameras of Junger and Hetherington take the viewer inside both harrowing firefights, and the downtime in which the men bond, much like great war films such as Platoon, with the difference being that Restrepo is real.

James Christopher Monger of allmusic compared the music to other film's soundtracks such as Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Forrest Gump and called it "...a fun but slight listen that plays out like an old late-'70s K-Tel compilation with a few bonus cuts from the future".

Further savings could be made by including things such as "platooning", where a number of driverless vehicles are driven closely together in a row to reduce wind resistance, as well as deploying smoother acceleration and braking, he said.

The lieutenant normally commands a small tactical unit such as a platoon.

Further, generally speaking, it is difficult to give a uniform or general Probability Density Function (PDF) or Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) of the inter-vehicle distances or connection duration length under different application scenarios such as overtaking, platoon and collisions.

ADVERTISEMENT There are moments that seem trivially absurd on the surface, such as the platoon's negotiations with local Afghan residents over reparations for a cow killed after becoming entangled in an outpost fence.

Several attempts were made to improve the rate of advance, such as dropping platoons of the 187th GIR from Piper Cubs in front of the 511th PIR to reconnoiter, and using C-47 transport aircraft to drop artillery pieces to the regiment's location when other forms of transport, such as mule-trains, failed.

The final script was developed to satirize Vietnam War films such as Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger Hill, and The Deer Hunter.

Based on the results, we further investigate inter-platoon connectivity in a bi-directional highway scenario and evaluate the expected time of safety message delivery among platoons, taking into account the effects of system parameters, such as traffic flow, velocity, platoon size and transmission range.