Sentence examples for the second platoon from inspiring English sources

The second platoon, headed by First Lieutenant Roy B. Cochran, was to systematically search My Lai 1 and destroy it.

The second platoon and its two sister platoons would leave about 1 a.m. under a moonless drizzle.

RESTREPO The war in Afghanistan as experienced by the members of the Second Platoon, Battle Company as they fight to maintain a 15-man outpost.

On one patrol, in Salamkhel, First Lt. Brian M. Kitching, who leads the Second Platoon, asked the villagers to meet at a mosque and discuss their problems.

Relieved at not having to enter My Lai 1, the second platoon began a rather aimless and halfhearted movement through huts and hamlets to the south, across the water from My Khe 4 and the first platoon.

In the spring of 2007, American soldiers in the Second Platoon of Battle Company, part of a regiment in the 173rd Airborne Brigade, began a 15-month deployment in the Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan.

The Fifth Platoon continued to distinguish itself.

The first platoon, headed by First Lieutenant Thomas K. Willingham, marched a few hundred yards east.

Geressy, who was with the third platoon, immediately got on his radio and called a ceasefire.

But the Third Platoon soldiers I spoke with paint a more complete picture.

Meanwhile, the third platoon of Charlie Company is about to return from another deployment.