Word: platooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guns will be kept at the armory in Memorial Hall, where battallion units will secure them and return them before and after every drill. Exempt from carrying the rifles are platoon, company, and battalion officers as well as members of the regimental staff...
...medication. There is also griping-an extremely important morale builder, says Private Hargrove. Typical soldier's gripe: "Our battery has the worst food in the Army. We've got the worst sergeant in the battery. No kidding, though, our platoon makes all the others look crummy." Private Bushemi, photographer, hazes a mess sergeant: "You know the one thing that's missing from this meal-the one thing that would make it perfect?" "Ice cream?" asks the sergeant. "Chloroform," says Bushemi...
...sound of martial music filled the Yard yesterday evening as 30 members of the University Band marched in with platoon formation and a lusty one, two, three, four, to serenade the members of the Naval School...
...former Yardlings scratched their heads in amazement as maintenance men with picks and shovels dug into the sacred lawns of the Yard and turned its chief path from traditional black to bizarre gray. The reason was merely this: the old path had not been wide enough to hold a platoon of men three lines deep, during the formal color raisings and color lowerings held daily by the Navy men. It was not beneficial either for the lawn or for military order that the Guard of Honor should have to stand on the grass. As for the color, the walk will...
...chief of staff at a headquarters recently involved in one of the worst fiascoes in all of our history was a man who boasted that he had never commanded troops in his life, not a battalion as a major, not a company as a captain, not even a platoon as a lieutenant. His lack of knowledge as to how orders are carried out and what actually has to be done to get them carried out consistently can properly be charged as one of the reasons for what might now be called a minor catastrophe in our military history...