Word: platooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story is told in film language every bit as wild as the chase itself. Time is a liquid, flowing back and forth. One second is the future, and the platoon's officer (Michael Crawford) has been captured by the Germans. The next is the past, and he is just starting out on his mission. Lunacy is the order of the day: staff officers exchange bubble-gum cards in the heat of conflict. An ex-cavalry colonel shoots his disabled tank. When a man is wounded, his wife abruptly appears on the battlefield. "It hurts," he groans, looking...
Like an inverted pyramid, all pacifist literature rests upon a single point: as W. H. Auden put it, "We must love one another or die." In How I Won the War, Director Richard Lestersharpens the point pictorially but blunts it philosophically by focusing on a platoon of World War II tommies hellbent on a suicide mission-building an officers' cricket field behind enemy lines in North Africa...
General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower, 77, has rarely been surrounded by so much rank. At a West Point Society dinner in Manhattan, Ike's five stars were flanked by a platoon of active and retired four-star generals, including SHAPE Commander Lyman Lemnitzer, Mark Clark, Alfred Gruen-ther, Lauris Norstad, Jacob Devers, Lucius Clay and Anthony McAuliffe. For that glittering crew, the society decided that no citations, no medals could come close to being adequate. "What award could we possibly give these men?" asked a spokesman plaintively...
...This weekend while I train with my platoon, I will think of your Essay. Then I will look at their faces; not the faces of draft dodgers or trophy polishers, but the faces of soldiers. They do not pretend to be professionals, and theirs is not a very high price to pay compared with their active-duty buddies in Viet Nam. Yet their faces will tell me something that makes me quite proud to be with them and a member of the Guard: that they are ready to pay that price if they are needed...
...young men who got to know one another as trainees at a Job Corps center near Oakland, Calif., all found jobs in the same company last week-as U.S. Army paratroopers. The 44, nearly all from poor families, volunteered as a unit, and have been assigned to a special platoon at Fort Lewis, Wash., where they were sent for basic training. Probably because of their stint at the Job Corps center, they averaged several points higher than the norm on the induction test. Without that added education, said Recruiting Sergeant Darryl Adkins-himself a veteran paratrooper-only...