" Gross, the platoon leader, called this mind- set "protect the innocent, punish the deserving.
The platoon leader and sergeant were assigned from the company, and of course were white.
In the face of this courage and determination, the platoon rallied to attack with renewed vigor.
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He was killed in action five weeks later, but only the platoon remembers his name.
The ramps went down and I lurched forward onto the harsh ground, beckoning the platoon to follow me.
With no police or language capabilities, the platoon knew who was an enemy only when he opened fire.
The platoon rose as one, crouched low and rushed across the bridge to the north side of town.
The platoon was short of engineers trained to sweep the ground for bombs and Navy corpsmen to aid wounded Marines.
When I rejoined the platoon in mid-March, the rhythm hadn't changed.
Gregory Fredlund, the platoon commander, was in America on leave.
By adding in wireless communication, the vehicles in the platoon "mimic" the lead vehicle using Ricardo autonomous control - accelerating, braking and turning in exactly the same way as the leader.
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Brennan, and the platoon medic, Specialist Hugo V.
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In another incident, deep in enemy territory, part of the platoon found themselves seven metres away from four armed insurgents and a fierce firefight ensued with Capt Dobbin charging forward to drive the enemy away.
Cpl Wilson, based at Bulford Camp, Wiltshire, served as a section commander in the Rifles and was awarded a distinction in the Platoon Sergeant's Battle Course - placing him in the top 2% of infantry soldiers.
Seriously wounded by the blast, Specialist Four Sabo nonetheless retained the initiative and then single-handedly charged an enemy bunker that had inflicted severe damage on the platoon, receiving several serious wounds from automatic weapons fire in the process.
"Seriously wounded by the blast, Specialist Four Sabo nonetheless retained the initiative and then single-handedly charged an enemy bunker that had inflicted severe damage on the platoon, receiving several serious wounds from automatic weapons fire in the process, " the citation said.
The next platoon heard the shooting, but were too far away to join the fight in time.
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The third platoon of the 53rd Field Hospital arrived in a small village in Holland not far from the German border.
With That Said, in the last 10yrs the SS Platoon has firmly moved into the Distant Reconnaissance role as the USMC has been experimenting with expanded capabilities, chiefly Distributed and Enhanced MAGTF Operations.
The two-wheeled bot is equipped with a low-resolution monochrome camera that feeds images back to the Operator Control Unit, and since it weighs just a single pound and fits in most cargo pockets, the whole platoon could carry their own in order to really scope out the next bend.
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Did my tentmates, Stiles and Veneris, the two platoon leaders whose cots lay so closely jammed against mine, feel the same terror?
Members of the 4th Platoon try to learn a few Kurdish words over lunch at a command outpost by the Tigris River in the western part of Mosul.
Almost every member of the Third Platoon said he wanted to be right where he was, living in a cave on the most dangerous battlefield in Afghanistan.
If one car needs to refuel, it seems silly for the entire platoon to stop.
Secondly, the majority of the soldiers which you spoke with were in the same platoon.
Like the Afghan police, Qasim, the Afghan platoon leader, had no radios.
Twelve grunts from the Third Platoon followed carefully in his footsteps.
Over the past six months, two members of the Third Platoon of Kilo Company, Fifth Marine Regiment, have been killed, two have lost limbs and eight have suffered shrapnel or bullet wounds.
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