Word: platooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...platoon sergeant, also in PT gear, hollers "First platoon, make a head call!" In perfect unison, all 14 of us respond accordingly: "FIRST PLATOON MAKE A HEAD CALL, AYE AYE PLATOON SERGEANT!" And after he barks "MOVE!", we answer, again in unison, with a motivated grunt and shuffle off to the bathroom to begin...
...audacity of the Task Force 160 pilots astounded the men trapped below. Despite the fact that the airmen had already seen two Black Hawks destroyed and one damaged so badly that it barely made it back to the airport, the pilots refused to back off. Waddell, whose platoon suffered 70% casualties, described the airmen's performance as "breathtaking, an incredible display of heroism. Those guys knew that without their help, we weren't going to make...
...balance that upbeat list there is another, less encouraging, set of considerations. Freeing Sarajevo of terror bombardments does not end its siege. "If the Serbs don't kill us with shells," says Mirsad Mojezinovic, a Bosnian army platoon leader, "then they'll do it with starvation." The Serbs still control ground movement into the city, along with the supply of food, electricity...
There's more coming. Caesars Palace plans to open Caesars Magical Empire, with no fewer than three theaters. What's going on? Elvis died, and it takes a platoon of rabbit tuggers to fill his jumpsuit? I think the answer is pretty simple. People go to Vegas to see something they can't see back home. They can see comedians at the mall, celebrities on TV, singers doing hit songs repeatedly in whatever-VH-1-is videos...
...Heaven & Earth. Oliver Stone is back for a third tour of Vietnam, after Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July. But for once in an American movie, the focus is on the Vietnamese, and on the sufferers: the land and the women. Phung Le Ly (played by newcomer Hiep Thi Le), growing up in the idyllic rice farmland of central Vietnam, becomes the victim of every possible atrocity as civil war heats up in the late '50s. She is tortured with knives, electric prods, snakes, even ants; she is brutalized by the republican army and raped by the Viet...