Sentence examples for work platoon from inspiring English sources

The unruly intellectual ambitions that animate both Mr. Stone's most vigorous work — "Platoon," "Wall Street," "J.F.K".

When they reached Basra, King worked alongside platoon sergeant Ian "Picky" Pickford.

Lasting change is usually the work of platoons rather than individual soldiers.

If Charles LeDray does not have little, nimble-fingered elves working in platoons around the clock under his direction, then I don't know how he does it.

In the heat of battle, he and the other members of his platoon work as a nearly seamless unit.

"The men liked him," said David Rogers, 56, who as a conscientious objector worked as the platoon's medic.

There are echoes too of the finest post-Vietnam drama of them all, Peter Kosminsky and Leigh Jackson's harrowing Warriors from 1999, which showed the terrible fallout of war on a British platoon working as peacekeepers in the former Yugoslavia.

The idea is that the cars can work as collaborative platoons, perhaps guided by a single or a few human-controlled vehicles.

A story of weary men trudging along mined roads, subjected to surprise artillery shelling; a realistic account of the work of a reconnaissance platoon.

As its own Marines stumbled wearily across friendly lines, much of the Afghan platoon that worked with them was straggling behind, unable to keep pace.

He still loves the Army, valuing the work, the brotherhood of his platoon and the military's promise of financial stability, he said.