Word: platooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marines, day in and day out, in methodical, grinding patrols against the Viet Cong, are killing an average 40 Viet Cong a week-at roughly the cost of one marine dead and five wounded a day. Typical was a night's work last week. After dusk a Marine platoon surrounded a hamlet in which V.C. had been reported hiding out, split into five squads and sat down to wait. No one spoke, no cigarettes were allowed, nor was mosquito repel lent, despite the stinging swarms-for a trained soldier can smell the chemical 50 yards away. Around...
...each stand the silver planes, bombs aboard, on phased alert: the first wave is on five-minute call, the next on 15-minute call, then a group on 30-minute call, finally a wave on an hour's notice. On the average, within 17 minutes of a platoon leader's radioed call for help, the jets can be over the target with almost any combination of weapons he might need: .50-cal. machine-gun bullets, cannon shells, Bull-Pup missiles, Zuni rockets, napalm, 260-lb. to 3,000-lb. bombs. At the newest of the fields...
...went, and Bill Leftwich, one of the 6,500 U.S. advisers who sometimes feel that they are the "forgotten men" in the new war, went too. The brittle Yen had run through five U.S. advisers until Leftwich came along. By quiet persuasion, Leftwich got Yen to add an engineering platoon, a 75-mm. howitzer platoon, a support and a signal detachment to what had been a medieval band. Since then, Colonel Yen and his men have been killing V.C. at a 9-to-1 ratio...
Leverett uses a two-platoon system with a line that averages over 200 pounds. Key to the defense is Joe Augusclak '66, captain and linebacker. One of the best of a good crop of sophomores is Ed Stump at offensive center...
...Hamp, a young cobbler from Islington, the only survivor of his World War I platoon. He is a prisoner in a dugout cell, waiting to be tried for desertion, while outside rumble the guns of the Passchendaele offensive. Picking his way past a detail that is digging out a flooded latrine comes the officer assigned to defend the deserter: correct, unsmiling Captain Hargreaves...