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platoon [plә'tu:n]

n. 排, 一组, 一群人

platoon

[ noun ]

a military unit that is a subdivision of a company; usually has a headquarters and two or more squads; usually commanded by a lieutenant

<noun.group>

a team of policemen working under the military platoon system

<noun.group>

a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity

<noun.group>

platoons of tourists poured out of the busses

the defensive platoon of the football team

Platoon \Pla*toon"\, n. [F. peloton a ball of thread, a knot or
group of men, a platoon, from pelote a ball formed of things
wound round. See {Pellet}.] (Mil.)
(a) Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small
square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a
hollow square.
(b) Now, in the United States service, half of a company.

The platoon of 15 started out with 25 women six months ago, most of them convicted of drug charges.
British-resident suspects include a former Lithuanian platoon commander, 71-year-old Antanas Gecas, who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
These are likely to include plans to redesign the extraordinarily complicated Chicago airspace, and may include the transfer of a platoon of highly experienced controllers to O'Hare, at least temporarily.
"The supply situation was atrocious," said Don Moore, a fellow platoon commander.
"We found out we didn't have any weapons that could penetrate the armor on the tanks," says William Wyrick, 65, a retired Army colonel who was then a young first lieutenant leading a platoon.
"We move at night so people won't see us," said Chris, a Marine platoon commander.
His far-less-inhibited platoon mate bludgeons an old woman to death with the butt of his rifle.
They have big money and legions of staff; his war chest is puny compared with theirs, his staff a platoon to their armies.
Michael Henderson and Rother's platoon leader, 1st Lt.
A platoon of World War II-era tanks, similar to those that liberated Paris from the Nazi occupation 50 years ago, clanked by. One bore the name "De Gaulle," in tribute to Gen.
For decades, Hope has been accompanied on his Christmas season tours by a platoon of starlets and Hollywood beauty queens.
As I moved my platoon of 20-odd teen-agers through the jungle, I chose to walk third in the line of march.
Steven K. Brooks, one of four officers involved in May Lai who were killed in action in the following months, the report said: "He directed and supervised the men of his platoon in the systematic killing of at least 60 to 70 non-combatants.
"All we could do was scratch the tanks and annoy the gunners," said Carl Bernard, another retired Army colonel who was a platoon leader with Task Force Smith.
Communist rebels ambushed a platoon of soliders trying to retrieve a hijacked truck near Bacalod, about 300 miles southeast of Manila.
A salute gun platoon from the 3rd U.S. Infantry sounded a 21-gun salute.
The Rural Retreat Elementary School in Wytheville, Va., for example, has adopted members of a platoon in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division.
The desert is a cruel place, as the Marine platoon in the hills several miles from the nearest road is finding out.
Stroessner attended the nation's military academy, graduating in 1929, and as a 20-year-old lieutenant led a mortar platoon in the Chaco War against Bolivia.
John W. Keker, 44, who like North was wounded while leading a Marine infantry platoon in action, was chosen on Friday by independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh to head a three-lawyer team that will try North.
Stone told the Oklahoma parole board Saturday that Toby T. Sanders, convicted of burglary, developed his drug habit in the platoon where both saw duty and were wounded in 1967.

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