Word: platooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their midst. At one point, an eerie silence enveloped the field, punctuated only by what sounded like men kicking footballs; it was the hollow clunk of cops kicking and clubbing fallen marchers. A white woman, her blue dress streaked with mud and grass stains, stumbled over to a platoon of blue-shirted city cops. "How could you be so cruel?" she sobbed. "Don't you know I'm a human being?" "Lady," snickered one of them, "I wouldn't be so sure." In all, close to 50 marchers were injured...
...soon as he could, after a tour of duty as a platoon leader at Fort Campbell, Ky., Carpenter volunteered for duty in Viet Nam. The year was 1963, and there were only 12,000 U.S. troops in that country at the time. An adviser to a South Vietnamese unit, Carpenter saw plenty of action, and came back to the U.S. with the Bronze Star, the Silver Star, a Purple Heart and two wounds inflicted by the Viet Cong...
...also have junior varsity teams that serve as training grounds. Yovicsin, a firm believer in experience and careful play, arranges for Harvard to have more junior varsity games than anyone else in the league. He never has more than five sophomore regulars on his teams, even with the two-platoon system...
Last fall Harvard's Army ROT unit formed a counter-guerilla platoon. About 15 or 20 cadets continue to practice bridge-building, ambus demolition, and small-group movements as an extra-curricular active for which they get no ROTC credit...
...singularly attuned to the many nuances of modern Communism and has suggested bold departures in American policy to capitalize on the changes currently taking place in the Communist world. At 38, he is also young enough to charge headfirst into the perennial problems that will try the new platoon...