Word: battalions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must also say a few words for the 3rd Ranger Battalion. As you well know, I love this. Despite how we ((soldiers)) all fight and mess with each other, there is a bond here that you have to be a part of to understand. I am very confident in the leadership of the 3rd Ranger Battalion. We are the best...
...authorities are expected to decide in the next six months whether to try Touvier. "After 20 years of stalling in the courts," said Serge Klarsfeld, the renowned Nazi hunter, "Touvier will have to answer for his crimes in a criminal court." Antanas Gecas, 77, a onetime Lithuanian auxiliary-police battalion officer now living -- quite openly -- in Edinburgh, Scotland, is similarly awaiting a decision by the British government about whether to prosecute him for his alleged participation in his battalion's murder of 15,000 Jews in Lithuania and Belorussia...
...southern direction," says Zalmay Khalilzad, director of strategic doctrine at the Rand Corp. "If the Serbs win in Bosnia, the prospect of the war spreading increases." He calls for more energetic involvement in Macedonia, where the U.S. has deployed a token force of 300 soldiers to join a Nordic battalion already in place. So small a unit is nothing more than a "trip wire," a warning to would-be aggressors that an attack would bring in much greater U.S. military power...
...Marines are made up mostly of enlisted personnel without the same opportunities. Some women do argue that any female who meets the physical requirements for combat units should be able to volunteer, but there is no sign of a ground swell. Captain Melea Riley, who commands a training battalion including both men and women at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, says, "I have never come across a woman who said she would like to be in a combat infantry unit." Cornum, the bemedaled flight surgeon, now back at Fort Rucker, Alabama, confirms that. "Personally," she says, "I've never...
...Harvard softball team learned against Division I power Providence College yesterday in Providence. The PC battalion overwhelmed the Crimson with lots of big hitting and swept Harvard's third doubleheader in four days...