A platoon is made up of about 30 or 40 men.

Platoon movie army or marines. Platoon won the Academy Award for best picture and the Golden Globe Award for best drama. A platoon is typically the smallest military unit led by a commissioned officer. It was a well-earned victory with critics still to this day naming director Oliver Stones intense drama as one of war cinemas finest.

The film also co-stars Marsha Mason Everett McGill and Mario Van Peebles. He was already the first Vietnam veteran to win an Oscar for Midnight Express 1978 and became with this film the first Vietnam vet to win an Oscar for Best Director. Platoon is widely acclaimed as one of the best war films in cinema history but how true to life is Oliver Stones incendiary movie.

Marines with the Black Sea Rotational Force conduct a platoon attack during Exercise Platinum Lynx on Babadag Training Camp RomaniaExercise Platinum L. Marine Corps Rifle Platoon consists of a platoon headquarters and 3 rifle squads. The platoon leader is usually a junior officera second or.

Martin Sheen Marlon Brando Robert Duvall Frederic Forrest. Francis Ford Coppola Stars. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

The film was released in the United States on 5 December 1986. With this movie Oliver Stone became the first Vietnam veteran to direct a major motion picture about the Vietnam War. Platoon American war film released in 1986 that was written and directed by Oliver Stone and was regarded by many critics as one of the best of the movies about the Vietnam War.

Because It makes sense. Also headquartered in Makati this is the premier military drill team of the Corps and one of 4 such units in the AFP patterned after the United States Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon. This does not include weapons teams M240 Javelin that are usually attached to the platoons from the company weapons platoon or battalion weapons company to increase their firepower.