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At a nearby residential complex, investigators found a radio with a list of call signs of junior commanders in airborne companies, including the head of a reconnaissance platoon: Uspekh.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

So, when manager Dave Roberts was asked in Detroit whether the Dodgers would consider setting up a left-field platoon with the team’s September call-ups, he said yes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Driscoll previously served in the Army and was an officer in 2007 before leading a cavalry platoon and deploying to Iraq for several months in 2009.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

“It would be like if I was leading a platoon of Marines but went to a hotel to sleep at night while they’re out in a foxhole,” he added.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

Our whole platoon really playing volleyball this time.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

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

The department is staffed by three 24-hour shifts, or platoons, of firefighters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2025

They herded the hastily formed Volkssturm platoons into parks and gave hurried instructions in the use of the machine gun and Panzerfaust.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti