platoon
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Dulkay traced Dementiev to a reconnaissance platoon of 12 Russian soldiers who were deployed on Yablunska Street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
After all, Hegseth has served as a platoon leader in the National Guard and as a prison guard for a little while, so he knew what he was talking about.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
Hernández, who entered this series with a .668 OPS against right-handed pitchers, had been struggling for so long that Roberts contemplated a left-field platoon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Brown, 26, who left the Army Reserve after seven years as an infantry platoon commander, wore it in training and on deployments.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
It was humiliating to be offered a Purple Heart now, and he wasn’t going to let his platoon leader insult him like that.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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Developing the ability to deploy platoons of robots that can carry out orders without hesitating also speaks to skepticism in Beijing about the reliability of PLA mission commanders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
This year, mercenaries began transiting through Bosaso in Somalia, where local sources told AFP a UAE-run section of a military base has hosted platoons of uniformed foreigners, transported in cargo planes.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
The department is staffed by three 24-hour shifts, known as platoons, with about 1,000 firefighters on duty at any given time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025
Many of us in the platoons of the federal workforce cannot afford to be dismissed, however illegal the dismissal might be.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2025
H Company was broken up into two platoons.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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