Sentence examples for their platoon from inspiring English sources

Hugo Mendoza, their platoon medic, was back in another ditch, calling: "I'm bleeding out.

The soldiers sent for their platoon commander, Niaz Muhammad, who arrived a few minutes later.

Behind, glints the wide grin of Miller, newly engaged to the only woman in their platoon.

With five team members down, including their platoon sergeant, the Americans were taking no chances, the ISAF official said.

Five were killed in a double bombing in Sang in that all but put their platoon out of action.

Many soldiers in the units are taking medications for post-traumatic stress disorder that make them forgetful, irritable or disoriented — thereby causing tensions with their platoon sergeants.

What soldiers want when they envision the Purple Heart is to get shot, patched up, and returned to their platoons in one piece.

Two local mothers with sons overseas have asked her to support their platoons, so she'll try to help them, too.

The furious Iraqi fire on their drive toward the abandoned base endangered the American soldiers who were bringing supplies to one of their platoons, and an American officer issued a plea over the tactical radio.

Soldiers in combat, Junger writes, "all but ignore differences of race, religion, and politics" within their platoons; in such environments, "individuals are assessed simply by what they are willing to do for the group".

Such looks and pedigrees gave them a leg up with the kids in their platoons, while I, skinny and knobby-kneed, almost didn't dare to let my troops see me reading anything so sissified as "The Pocket Book of Verse".