Word: platooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been having many fascinating training films of late. Most recent was "The Anti-Submarine Platoon in the Attack, Supported by a Section of 60-mm Mortars...
...anti-submarine platoon comes under the jurisdiction of the Ambiguous Training Command with headquarters at the abandoned WAC Information Booth on Boston Common...
There was the small man with the big remains that Bragg's were colorful. Their muscles, the close combat instructor and fiendish ("scrub barracks tonight") platoon sergeant. He had the "cadre complex" and had it bad, and was continually nasty in a high-pitched way. Then came the first cool day, when he winsomely confided that he was an ex-English teacher, that his greatest ambition was to come to Harvard after the war as a graduate student, "and just read for a year...
There was old (25 years) "Sergeant Dick," who got his name from calling everyone Dick. Talkative, Ozarkian, lanky, he harangued his platoon half hours at a time, often to heights of innocent eloquence, as in his farewell speech: "I ain't a sacred man, but we gonna win, 'cause we got folks ta home what's got a mighty big drag wid de Man 'at runs 'a whole shebang...
...reviews once. They couldn't march without swaying from side to side on their parenthetical legs, but we'd have gotten by except that one of them thought the uniform of the day should include chaps. At that, we were lucky. His original idea was to lead the platoon on his boss...