How to Use platoon sergeant in a Sentence

platoon sergeant

noun
  • The platoon sergeant ordered the soldiers to move into formation next to the hearse.
    Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 2018-05-27
  • My first platoon sergeant was a corporal named Wayne Johnson.
    CBS News, 2019-10-23
  • It had been typed up by Knuppel, who Lt. Tachovsky hand-picked to serve as his platoon sergeant and right-hand man.
    Curt Brown, Star Tribune, 2021-03-20
  • Romero, a former platoon sergeant in the Army, retired after 17 years of service.
    Andrew Favakeh, The Arizona Republic, 2021-07-16
  • After the meal, the prisoner was first moved into the officers’ tent, where Moshe and the platoon sergeant joined her.
    Robyn Creswell, The New York Review of Books, 2020-10-06
  • My platoon sergeant was a high-speed E-6 that had been put in charge of the platoon because there [were] no E-7s that could do it.
    Fox News, 2020-03-29
  • Whittington, a squad leader, assumed command of his platoon when the platoon leader and platoon sergeant became missing in action.
    Drew Broach | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 2020-12-07
  • His former platoon sergeant recalled that Reinoehl’s stint in the military was marked by drug- and alcohol-related offenses on and off the base.
    Bryan Denson, ProPublica, 2020-11-05
  • Director Perry, a military veteran, based the latter character on his old platoon sergeant.
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 2022-06-07
  • His platoon sergeant helped formulate a lot of the training regimen that was developed for Army Cavalry leaders, which further set Nick up for success.
    Paula Davis, Forbes, 2021-05-18
  • The platoon sergeant has the final responsibility in the coordination, control and termination of a pursuit and is in overall command, the policy says.
    Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 2021-09-29
  • The lowest-ranking Marines facing boards are two enlisted men who were staff sergeants in July 2020 — the former platoon sergeant and the vehicle commander of the track that sank.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2022-02-06
  • Separately, the unnamed former platoon sergeant of the Bravo Company platoon involved in the sinking will face an administrative separation board.
    Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 2022-01-05
  • In 2015, Tabansky was a flight engineer instructor and flight platoon sergeant stationed in Germany when he was called to stage a new Chinook helicopter at a military expo in London.
    Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 2021-11-11

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