What is "platoons"

Usage examples of "platoons".

The wounded were handed over to the less fatigued troops of the second and third platoons and passed down the line to a concrete pagoda where the four company medics had gathered.

MP platoons from Dix, and the city put on a hundred cops outside the gates.

As you can see, the regiments are broken down into companies consisting of platoons and squads.

Elsewhere in the barracks other platoons were also scrambling to leave on liberty.

The first two platoons of my company just fell down like you take a scythe and cut grass.

But right off the bat, we knew we knew we lost our first and second platoons almost in total, and it was half our crew.

Finally we literally got to the point where we lined the platoons up one at a time and urinated on the tubes to cool them down so we could continue the mission.

He handed one stock of wood to one woman to pass on down the table to some men who volunteered from the other platoons to work on making crossbows.

Some members of her platoon and other platoons were at the river where they bathed or swam.

Its company commander had just been promoted and the other platoons had been attached tactically elsewhere.

This imaginary division has 10,800 men in 216 platoons, each with a lieutenant.

The other platoons will lend you help if they finish their own suits ahead of time.

My infantrymen will relieve your platoons on the line before dawn tomorrow so your people can get an early start.

The six guns of the blaster platoons and the heavier guns of the assault platoon were set up, and their fire, added to that of the Dragons, put up a plasma wall that vaporized most of the attackers.

Nearly all of the Army of the Lord platoons, each under the command of a Marine fire team or gun team, made contact with Skinks.