Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Torres, 25, of Corpus Christi, Texas. A medic with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment of the Air Cav, Torres was standing by when a radioed cry for help came in from another company that had just been ambushed and decimated. Torres volunteered to go out with a rescue patrol, grabbed seven litters from MEDEVAC helicopters, and moved out. About 11 p.m. they found the wounded-some 45 men huddled around a giant anthill. On litters and on foot, 18 wounded got back. Torres searched out more wounded, then stayed on with them, using up all of his own morphine...
After earlier less serious attacks the University and the Metropolitan District Commission Police took steps to make the bridge safer. The MDC installed lights along the bridge. From time to time the University Police assigned an officer to patrol the area on the north side of the Charles. But these measures have proved ineffective...
...University Policeman assigned to patrol in front of Leverett and Dunster Houses will continue to do so. The MDC's Basin and Brighton stations -- which have jurisdiction over the bridge and its approaches -- will have patrol cars stop at the Weeks Bridge every half hour and check in from an emergency call box that is to be installed in the middle of the bridge...
...more can and should be done now to make the Weeks Bridge safe at night. The College should propose that the University Police be given jurisdiction over the bridge. They will be able to assign officers to patrol the bridge at night. The two MDC Police stations don't have the manpower to keep a patrolman on the bridge. And only such patrolling will prevent any further attacks on students crossing the Weeks Bridge...
Glowing Red. The main battalion force soon had an even larger tragedy on its hands. At dawn, two platoons of C Company manning X Ray's southeast corner fanned out on patrol. The Communists cunningly sniped and retreated ahead of them, then sprang an ambush from the flanks and rear. Simultaneously a direct Red onslaught smashed head-on at the main ¶Company positions back at the landing zone, diverting both attention and possible aid to the two trapped platoons. Both were virtually annihilated. When relief forces arrived, they found several G.I.s who had been taken prisoner, later shot...