Sentence examples for the same platoon from inspiring English sources

Only Manuel would remain anywhere near Eriksson; he was being reassigned to a different squad in the same platoon.

Two more officers from the same platoon are detained for allegedly attempting to cover up the killing, according to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot.

He was in the same platoon as myself, and we were very great chums, and I think it my duty to write to you.

We define the inter-platoon space as the distance between the last vehicle of the leading platoon and the first vehicle of the following platoon, and the intra-platoon space as the distance between the vehicles within the same platoon.

In July 2009 the UK Army suffered the worst attack of the Afghanistan campaign on a foot patrol, when five men from the same platoon were killed by bombs and many more were injured.

Days later, amid the chaos and gunfire of Liberia's civil war, the same platoon evacuated over 2,000 Americans and foreign nationals from the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia without firing a shot.

Blaine was a member of Third Platoon, Charlie Company, the same rifle platoon as two other Marines on the tank, Schlagel and Beals, as well as Glass — although Schlagel and Beals didn't know or couldn't remember Blaine's name when they were each interviewed for the story in People.

The Army allowed the brothers to serve in the same elite Ranger platoon, a decision that led to the fatal snafu that put Kevin and Pat in separate patrols, on a spurious mission, ordered from a distant command post, to save a disabled vehicle, while exposing men to danger.

Around the same time, a platoon of Southern Rhodesians in the KRRC took part in an engagement near Nieuwpoort in Flanders, where it and the Northamptonshire Regiment manned positions on the eastern banks of the river Yser.

Around the same time 8 Platoon C Company under Lieutenant Colin Townsend was sent across the bridge in the darkness to further reinforce B Company, and they dug-in on each side of the road leading to the bridge.

While on the same day 9 Platoon, C Company, 2 RAR/NZ also assaulted and occupied a camp initially believed to be of similar strength and held it for 19 hours after repeated attacks from a Viet Cong force estimated to be of company strength.