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The platoon commander must have read it on my face.

They claim not to have seen the platoon commander all day.

I was a platoon commander with five men to command.

Today, she is a platoon commander, with 25 soldiers under her authority.

"At once," said the platoon commander and he was gone.

"Two platoon commanders were killed and had their ears cut off."

The platoon commander and five of his men charged down the hill.

I was too impatient to get at that platoon commander.

"It's not right for a platoon commander to be away from his marines."

The following passages have been written by two of the platoon commanders.

He gave it to his platoon commanders and told them to select the men to be left behind.

He was then assigned as a platoon commander in Korea.

His best platoon commander even jumped into the water a couple of days later to prove the point.

Kennedy's platoon commander was shot three times below the hips.

Someone opened fire on them from about 50 yards away, killing the platoon commander, the army said.

His first assignment was a platoon commander at this secondary military school.

All the Company platoon commanders had become casualties during the period prior to the attack.

This behavior has also been documented for pilots and platoon commanders.

I shall give oral instructions to the platoon commander at a later time.

All three platoon commanders at the canal bridge were now either dead or wounded.

It is here that leadership and tactics are taught to new platoon commanders.

In 1918 he joined the Red Army and was a platoon commander.

He signaled to the platoon commander, who came running.

Company and platoon commanders checked their lines for proper interval.

The platoon commanders were all promoted in the field.

He was the last of the platoon leaders to do so.

The platoon leader wanted to know if he should open fire.

These first few days are hard on a new platoon leader.

He did not use the radio to talk to the platoon leaders.

All three platoon leaders gone, and in less than ten minutes!

The platoon leader had been only three years older than him.

But they required that the platoon leader be able to read his mind.

Ten minutes later all but one team had joined the platoon leader.

He had lost track of the platoon leader, and that was a bad sign.

On the morning of the second day I began to assert myself more as a platoon leader.

He sat at the main table with the mission's forward platoon leader, It.

A few moments earlier I had been an effective platoon leader doing his job.

He was then named sergeant in the field and made platoon leader.

Locate the platoon leader who had been holding my area.

A box that was never sent to a platoon leader in Afghanistan.

I tried the platoon leaders' frequency again and it was still silent.

"We are going to need ammunition," the platoon leader said.

Peter Pan would have been a more effective platoon leader.

We've got a bird colonel trying to play platoon leader.

"Then the military police took our platoon leader and shot him in the garden behind the inn."

The platoon leader held up his hand as he watched the soldiers come closer.

As platoon leader, she insisted on leading her troops from the front.

"Instruct the other platoon leaders that I will see them here in ten minutes."

I was thinking about a certain platoon leader I know.

As far as the platoon leader could see, everything was in hand.