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1. Lord Dorsal and his platoon found Boras’ men and surrounded them
2. My whole platoon had landed at the station to bid me adieu, as
3. Zarko was standing on the city wall overlooking the plain of Dura when the first platoon of the Babylonian army arrived back from their military campaign
4. He straightened up and felt the realisation hit home – had something happened to him too? Normally his father led the platoon on his majestic steed and would have been the first one to enter the plain
5. A short time after this Captain Melstone arrived at Hill114 and came to see us we had got mixed in with some Fusiliers and there was only Elijah and I left from our platoon with them
6. We set back off to the village leaving the dead Turks lying where they fell as we arrived back we found an advance Platoon of Lancashire Fusiliers already established there
7. Our units must have been scattered all over the place and a Platoon of Fusiliers bumped into us and nearly got their heads blown off for their trouble
8. The Platoon that had joined us in the bush now bade us farewell and went off to join the Fusilier Company
9. Then Bert came over and asked me about Mabel I told him she was fine and missing him however I didn’t tell him about her asking me to look after him I was happy because I was back in the bosom of my platoon with my mates and it was as if I had never been away
10. However our platoon had been volunteered to accompany the Battalion transport which was going via Southampton-Le Havre so once again after a trip on the G
11. I was following a Red army armour platoon instructed to push
12. I now saw that it was Fred Talbot from the 3rd Platoon and he said
13. There was my old friend John Pearson who had come from the 2nd Battalion and was now in charge of our platoon
14. However, we did not desire to undermine the Instructor’s authority in front of his platoon
15. That would have been immoral, so we saved him by fabricating a story that we knew him from somewhere and wouldn’t his platoon wish to volunteer for the Flying Squad one day etc? I am sure the platoon weren’t that stupid and they must have had a good laugh that night
16. The RSM found his witticism very funny and was cracking up with laughter, as did the rest of the platoon, them being loyal to the RSM for their own survival
17. Some cadets in my platoon did not possess a high school pass, which meant that they never finished high school and by default did not meet the minimum standards for enlistment
18. We used to knock each other around, and after that we were pitted against another platoon
19. None of my platoon mates were sympathetic though
20. When the day arrived it was a hugely impressive spectacle, with the mounted platoon and genuine (not the Cadet one) Police Orchestra marching up front playing music
21. The RSM banned the Hyena’s platoon to the rear, where they were less likely to embarrass him
22. I only saw pictures of it, as our platoon was assigned to the PT display, which consisted of 800 men doing callisthenics
23. Shooting cats wasn’t half the fun he thought it would be when his platoon had been posted here
24. I saw him frequently in platoon 2
25. He used to say we are mad and operate in ways which they would never consider unless part of the Recon Platoon
26. In reality, a SAP COIN platoon is not in the least comparable with an Army (conscript) one
27. I saw a television story after 1994 where a whole platoon of SAP COIN was “killed” by the Liberation Movement
28. If unlucky, it all depended on the Sergeants mood, the rest of the platoon would be punished for “being f disgraceful and inviting the f wrath of God not only on himself, but also on his beloved sergeant f unfairly too since he is f known far and wide to be a God f fearing man
29. Right at the time when I had wanted to follow some spoor, they wanted to talk to my platoon
30. When Calley would not, Thompson ordered his crew to train their weapons on the platoon, and threatened to open fire unless the platoon stopped
31. He was in my platoon
32. “For the time being, a platoon of replacements is in transit by train
33. My platoon was fortunate enough to occupy a very small rise in the earth
34. Colling recognized him as Lieutenant Peterson, one of the platoon leaders from D Company
35. A packed house with a jazz band, and a platoon of
36. platoon in Croatia during the most intense fighting experienced by Canadian
37. “You six and your pets would be wiped out in a moment in any serious engagement! You’re nothing but a pack of foolish, headstrong adolescents! Granted you have considerable strength and talent and power as individuals, but face reality! Now that this alliance is formed, the existing fast reaction units of its nations’ military forces will number tens of thousands of warriors and wizards and dragons! No enemy will attack unless they can match at least that force! For a platoon as small and inexperienced as yours to make any real difference at all, you would have to detect the initiation of hostilities, Translocate there, assess the situation first hand, and be acting accurately with all your power, all within one-quarter of a second after the first advance units of the enemy had Translocated to the site of hostilities!
38. Some of the Sylvan platoon must have raised Force Shields or cast counter-Movements, for the pile shifted and a boulder flew off
39. The 1st Platoon took the main thrust of the hasty area ambush
40. The com�mander of the lead tank was killed, the scout section was blasted out of action, and the platoon sergeant took over when the platoon leader was wounded
41. The lieutenant colonel looked over the situation, ordered Troop B into a better position to relieve the beleaguered 1st Platoon, and gave more air strike information to Copperhead Zero Nine
42. He was out in the Delta when the Vietnamese platoon he was with got backed against a canal by the VC
43. "Twelve Viets out of a platoon of 40 straggled back to My Tho that night
44. He said the platoon leader, a lieutenant, and the platoon sergeant were killed along with Brad when some napalm splashed over on them
45. The platoon snapped sharply to attention
46. The captain sent half a platoon of soldiers to the infirmary where they came face-to-face with what was left of our medical staff and those we'd sent before, our friends and colleagues—I didn't see them, but I remember hearing the description over the handheld radio
47. acted as a platoon in a war zone
48. An army platoon is the archetype of team
49. Ramin, Javid, Kamil, and I were assigned to join the 2nd Platoon of the Revolutionary Army, which had been active in the war zone for the past two years
50. As the war went on and Iraq’s Army retreated to the international borders, the 2nd Platoon was assigned as an independent intelligence unit to infiltrate enemy territory in the south of the Iraqi city Al-Basra
1. They were normally followed by the platoons of foot soldiers
2. “We will be advancing in waves with two Platoons to a wave and this will be on a 400yd front and each man will have a space of 5yds between them
3. “Our Battalion will be in the first wave of the attack along with some Pal’s Battalions from Yorkshire and our Company Platoons will be in this first wave
4. That began a flood of requests, and Mark the Rooinek made good money by helping the other platoons with the loader
5. As you will see later during our PT sessions we developed a strong dislike for other platoons, so making them pay for services was well within the rules
6. You may be sure that we took our revenge when we could for a healthy dislike existed between the platoons
7. Now that created a free for all of note, which some of us looked forward to because of a certain misunderstandings like the one at the mess hall regarding beetroot! We would line up across from each other, and two cadets from opposing platoons entered the ring and battled for two rounds, or as long as the PT Sergeant fancied
8. Since the two platoons lined up across from each other, we could work out our opponent by counting down the cadet relative to your own number
9. The men had long scrambled through torrent and thicket under a galling fire; the sight of comrades falling acted as an incentive, and, like a series of waves, the companies surged forward, the platoons irregular, commands mixed
10. The platoons formed companies, and the companies spread out across the parade ground with the company commanders standing alone up front
11. In SAP COIN platoons you always found a few detectives who knew how to interrogate suspects and gain the information / intelligence so crucial in hunting terrorists
12. The SAP Riot Units organised themselves in platoons and companies as would any Army Regiment but without the traditions which went with an Army Regiment
13. 1984: following a successful raid on the communications intercept facility near Puerto Cabezas, Truman and the three platoons he led were moving fast through the pine forest of the coastal plain near Maniwatla to escape the Sandinistas chasing them, when they ran directly into a second column closing in from the west
14. He had been caught, more than once, leading platoons from the 7th into heavy VC encampments
15. marching platoons, the horse-drawn chariots, and other military equipment that lumbered
16. At first light the day after the attack, three platoons of fresh troops from the 173rd Airborne arrived on the air base
17. In similar fashion, he separated and positioned the six platoons on the parade field
18. The six cadets from Eretz were separated, one in each of the platoons
19. The platoons were split up due to the limits of the facilities available to them
20. Where Rachel saw the grand sweep of armies pitted against each other in epic struggles, Wendy saw the details of the movements of individual platoons and regiments as they dealt with the business of vanquishing an enemy
21. As he was about to speak into his communicator to the other platoons to regroup, he and the others heard what sounded like explosions
22. “What the hell? The rest of the platoons must have encountered the enemy!”
23. We will retreat from this area and wait for the survivors from the other platoons a few meters from here
24. He read the last one carefully and found out that one of his platoons, along with Sylvie Comeau and four French nurses, was going to stay behind under the protection of forty robots while he and the rest of the force moved on to their next objective, Buchenwald
25. The personnel of the following units and sub-units will prepare immediately for a ground defense mission beyond the perimeter of the airfield: the armored car and detention platoons of our Military Police company; the first and second platoons of our airfield defense company and the emergency defense sections of all our administrative, logistical and construction sub-units
26. I will position three platoons on top of it, plus another platoon on the hill immediately west of it, to prevent the enemy from outflanking it
27. She gave the order for one of her platoons dug in on an adjacent hilltop to her northeast, Hill 310, to open fire with its machine guns when the enemy infantrymen were still a good hundred meters short of her hilltop
28. His platoon sergeant then shouted a few orders, making his men form a single file and then leading them, along with the other platoons of their battalion, towards the long line of parked CH-47J heavy transport helicopters
29. Our Army platoons were unaware of these tactics
30. During my posting periods, I had witnessed the greatest tragedies that occurred in the Janglemahal and Dhantewada where many jawans of our Army platoons, CRPF jawans and police forces were brutally killed in the deadly explosions of landmines, bomb blasts and gunshots
31. Immediately I went with my platoons to rescue the trapped passengers and vehicles on the national high way road
32. Our platoons were successful to carry out the operation
33. After reaching at the school boundary walls our two platoons of jawans were commanded to move in all the four directions in groups
34. And at last a moment had arrived when all the Army jawans of our two platoons were killed before the day break up accept my seven jawans
35. Till then the re-enforcement team of Army platoons were arrived there
36. There were more deployments of Army platoons and security forces in the entire area and in the adjoining areas
37. The Army platoons and the security forces were failed to control the situation
38. In that he was nearly stunned to see how many bravery and campaign medals the women of the Air force platoon wore, which was at least equal to the amount the men of the Marine and Army platoons wore
39. Guardians deserting the useless gun batteries were forming into platoons and firing at the Warrior ships
40. “What have I done to deserve this? Why did they give me the most useless bunch of wanna be soldiers?” He turned and stood with his hands on his hips, taking a hard, longing look at the other platoons, who marched along merrily up and down the parade ground
41. I noticed that the other platoons ran a lot more than the previous week
42. Once we were all standing, a corporal took one of the other platoons forward to erect the few fallen target plates
43. The other corporals had a hard time getting there platoons together
44. The platoons lined up behind each other, and we being Platoon 1, were in front
45. Before any of us could say or do anything, a guy from one of the other platoons stormed forward and tackled the Corporal to the ground
46. An expert on jungle warfare had once told him that two equally matched platoons could expect to lose half their number in an hour of fighting
47. ‘Now assign two Kashi platoons
48. Our big boss man happened to be on our side of the city, and he was keeping track of how the platoons were doing
49. Chris and I met after we assumed the position of leading petty officers (LPOs) for our platoons in Task Unit Bruiser
50. Our big boss man happened to be on our side of the city, and he was keeping track of how the platoons were doing
