George Vecsey

The football playoffs feature one-off affairs, without bad feelings building from weekend to weekend. In addition, football uses platoons for offense and defense and kicking, so only the interior linemen have a chance to really get up close and personal with one another.

American Author

Edward Zwick

If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make 'Glory' now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach.

American Director

Jeff Duncan

I'm concerned that we're sending these military men... facing an infectious disease that could be deadly. If they go to Iraq, and they fight ISIL, and they come home, they're not bringing ISIL with them and threatening their families or platoon mates.

American Politician

Joseph Dunford

I want to make sure I have a system that allows me to know that the platoon sergeant and platoon commander aren't going to move at the same time when we come back from deployment. That sounds pretty simple, but it's really about data.

American Public Servant

Mark Esper

I think, generally, the NCOs and officers in a platoon or company want to take care of their soldiers, and they understand it doesn't run from nine to five, like in the civilian world.

Fritz Kreisler

I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.

Austrian Composer

R. Lee Ermey

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.

American Soldier

Seth Moulton

The greatest honor of my life was to lead these men in my platoon, even though it was a war that I and they disagreed with.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

American President

Michael Hastings

My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq.

Used specifically to refer to a military unit; implies a structured, disciplined team.

Military Context

A platoon consists of around 15 to 30 soldiers, emphasizing a smaller subset of a company.

Platoon Size

A platoon is often led by a junior officer; knowing this highlights the leadership structure.

Platoon Leader

In sports, a platoon signifies a strategy where teams alternate players to optimize performance.

Team Substitution

In sports, platoons are often formed based on players’ specific skills suited to different game stages.

Specific Skillsets

Refers to a team of vehicles or machines, indicating synchronized operation in industrial contexts.

Industry Operations

Used to express the idea of a collective, coordinated work effort among machines or vehicles.

Collaborative Effort

 was very devastating for me. I have a very clear image of leaving the base hospital on a stretcher and my entire platoon is waiting outside to see if I was OK. And then, suddenly, I was a civilian again. I knew I wanted to give acting another shot, because -- again, this is me --

My journey from Marine...

 for the school in village health clinic and winter coats and medicines to help the kids get through the winter when mortality rates usually jump this helped our soldiers build influence and reduced the potential of future conflict in Afghanistan we helped a platoon leader

Encouraging troops to be...

 almost a fifth of the combat for all of NATO forces in the country, for a couple months. It was very intense. I spent most of my time at a small outpost called Restrepo. It was named after the platoon medic that had been killed about two months into the deployment.

Sebastian Junger: Why...

 people that are sending me out on targets that are making me fight call these animals access equipment you can ask anybody that's ever been in a firefight and somebody has used a dog to save their life or you have worked with any kind of platoon that utilizes the

Soldier Adopts Dog That...

 my role in that battle was a team leader with one of the platoons that went in on the air assault I wouldn't originally I'm on the helicopters when you make it out of something where others didn't you're gonna spend the rest of your life

Remembering the Battle...

 sound to him a sound and a smell and these mortar - when it was dropping and then the concussion I was one of the last in my platoon that actually see combat and that day started with a mission to do humanitarian aid and we started

Photos from the Front...

 heavily guarded by platoons of sentries who vet every arrival inside the workers labor building a maze of interconnecting struts and plates to support the brood combs

Bees Building Wax Nests...

 I just gotta go I gotta go help some people why those guys in my platoon and my family too

The Long Road Home PIPE...

 Samuel fools platoon is at rest for a short while