How to pronounce“platoon”in English

platoon lived in in a empty ammo bunker near the blood air base and we just kind of all set up you know myself and another geek had set up the routers and

platoon and uh 50 people including some very very experienced

His platoon landed on Omaha Beach during the Battle of Normandy.

A platoon is around 40 or 50 soldiers not by coincidence.

my platoon in particular was stationed between buildings four and five.

little platoons.

you commanded a platoon.

So when a SEAL platoon is on patrol in enemy territory, sneaking into an enemy compound, the man in front is the point man.

part of that platoon.

And I was the platoon commander for an engineer position of 50 Marines and we were doing mostly what everybody

I think about the platoon that I was with in combat, the most stressful environment conceivable.

People in a platoon in combat are valued for how they act not for their race, their beliefs,

was sending platoon of 40 guys to live in these remote outposts with 40 Iraqi policemen or 40 Iraqi soldiers.

team one Bravo second platoon we went through you know from Kuwait to Baghdad

So if I walked into a platoon going, well, I'm the senior guy here, pay attention to me, that would have lasted all of about 10 seconds.

He was not in my platoon.

I was responsible for a platoon of men going to war and had to make sure that they were fit and ready to go.

They had a 64-man armed platoon trained in taekwondo.

It's not about sending in a platoon to make a movie anymore.

We lost five points because the platoon, turning onto to the parade field was not aligned.

That's me in my platoon, I was embedded with the mortar platoon at the time this is a photo of us with our Senegalese counterparts.

which you could land an entire platoon of American marines in -- in five Blackhawks that don't touch each other?

You can’t hear your platoon leader and your platoon leader is wearing a gas mask.

he was pretty much the adjacent platoon Commander to uh Lieutenant Fick um before we deployed I mean he was really really sharp guy genius if you met him

kid's face who was my platoon leader in Vietnam uh and he told me over the

I spent a year off and on with an American platoon in combat in eastern Afghanistan, very remote outpost, a lot of combat, a lot of hardship, a lot of danger,

Only active duty guy to get out of my platoon at that time, so all my buddies are getting ready to go

And I've had two guys from my platoon already, who've taken their own lives.

That was I got in the Marines as an infantry platoon commander.

I ended up choosing to go into the sniper platoon-- trying out and being selected to the sniper platoon, and had an opportunity a couple months later

He was one of two survivors of his original platoon.

However, every platoon leader had to take their team to man an outpost that was up a

they say by the way you now have a platoon so he's 23 he's never done anything you know and he's in in charge

all this at your disposal I was 23 years old a platoon leader later I became company commander and I had all the

There was a log of dislike within the platoon.

And I’ve experienced it as a civilian reporter in a platoon.

- So we have to throw in Platoon from Oliver Stone and Apocalypse Now, for me at least.

I mean, you're directing a platoon into combat, you're trying to get the trucks out of the motor pool, you're doing these things that are action-oriented,

And I lead the debrief, being the platoon commander.

And the reason they had the battle plan was when the sergeant in the platoon was injured or killed, the corporal had to take over.

Specifically, I was in Reconnaissance Battalion Scout Sniper Platoon.

I mean, if you're in a platoon in combat, you're never further way then a few feet from another person for a year.

And he said that he was a Staff Sergeant in charge of a platoon.

RPGs and grenade attacks often surprisingly coordinated recalled Lieutenant Tim gross a platoon

dingbats which they are but now they're my people another member of our platoon was

and don't get me wrong I know I still even as a platoon star and I have a very myoptic view of what's going on but let's be honest when I spend three years

enlisted underage in the Army uh and when you're in a platoon you develop

And of course, platooning saves fuel in the economic area.

Here are some convoy operations, or platooning, as they call it-- not yet fully automatic.