Platoon Quotations

We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.

The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual freedom from sin and the personal decision to find spiritual liberty that leads to a better life here on Earth and for eternity. On Sundays in America, the most conservative people can be found in black churches.

When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.

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

From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career.

If Willie goes out there every day, you lose a lot of your flexibility. I wouldn't mind using him out of a platoon situation, but I'd hate to send him out there every day.

His platoon leader said he was driving his vehicle. There were four other guys in there with him. The bomb went off in front of the vehicle, and he took the whole blast of it.

He lived and breathed being a U.S. Marine platoon sergeant, and he died pulling a fellow Marine to safety.

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

We're just going to see how the guys react, and how they're playing. I don't think we can speculate right now if this guy is going to be in a platoon situation. We're going to just have to figure it out as we go along, because a lot of these players just don't have the Major League experience and they just don't have the track record of how they perform, left vs. left or right vs. right. You just don't have that right now in the big leagues.

The platoon is still on, he just hits Vazquez good.

There's no question ... the depth we have is paying big dividends. We're still fresh. We still have strong legs. The platoon system we run has helped us, and we hope it continues.

That's who we are. If our starters ever had a problem, they all know we're all ready. We'll all take the ball. Whether we feel good or not. . . . We want to pitch, we want to pick each other up. It's kind of like a little platoon down there.

This is not a strict platoon basis. It doesn't have anything to do with the numbers (which favor a right-handed hitting batter against a left-handed pitcher). This has to do with finding Billy Hall playing time.

This is not a platoon situation with Jeromy Burnitz. Jeromy Burnitz is our right fielder.

This pipes-and-drums platoon is 35 strong, and we are touring about 70 cities in three months.

There was no other single element of the 216th that worked as hard or worked at more places than the equipment platoon from right here in Felicity, Ohio, ... They will have a place of honor in the history of the 216th and the Ohio National Guard forever, as will the maintenance platoon, which is also located here at Felicity.

The reports on Correll was that he could be a platoon outfielder in the big leagues some day, given his chance.

I'm not really in panic mode, but, really, this is it. I know this is the shot that I get right now, and I've got to really take it and run with it. It's kind of time to respond to be an everyday guy. If you don't get it done, you don't want to become a platoon player at 25, 26 years old.

I'll play the platoon role if I have to, but I'm going to go out and play as hard as I can to try and win that job for sure. I think everyone will say that, too. If it's for the good of the team, I'm willing to do it. I want to win, and that's the bottom line.

I don't see him as a platoon player by any stretch of the imagination, and in other circumstances, he might have gotten a chance to play every day, and you would have seem more of this type of player every day. We just didn't have the luxury of letting him fail a little bit along the way to becoming the player that he is.

I don't like to platoon anybody, but I think all six linebackers warrant playing time. So, if that's the way it is, that's the way it is.