Word: platooner
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...Lords of Discipline, Keith is back in uniform again, as a cadet at a Southern military academy. He gets the girl-Sophie Ward, 17-and by now has got military technique down permanently. "After all these movies," says Keith, "I've at least learned how to drill a platoon...
...learned to live with it, my private martyrdom. So I was more or less prepared to grit it out again in the army, Willingly or Knott (Ha!). What I wasn't ready for was the conglomeration of certified wise guys and punsters called the I and R platoon. They decided my nickname must be Wont or Won't; only the spelling was contended...
...food and beer. New enough to contribute food and beer. New York newspapers and TV stations showed a serene Cruz sitting back and reading a book while the world quite literally rushed by. But alarmed city officials sent a couple of psychiatrists to size him up and then a platoon of police to take him away for further tests. When social workers offered him lodging in one of the city's shelters for the homeless, Cruz sniffed: "The shelters are pigpens." Said one local newspaper columnist: "He must have been one of the sanest men in the city...
...light-infantry skills that an average G.I. might absorb in nearly a full year. The program includes everything from basic physical training to communications to the use of American weapons. Much of the emphasis will be on training the Salvadorans to operate as coordinated units on the squad, platoon and company levels. There will be instruction on day and night troop movements, as well as the ambush and counterambush tactics useful in an anti-guerrilla war. There will be, says a U.S. Army spokesman, "a lot of time in the field, and some very long days...
...Fort Benning, about 500 other Salvadoran trainees last month began a combined 14-week basic training and officers candidate course. American soldiers normally spend 38 weeks in these courses, emerging as combat infantry platoon leaders. The special program puts a high emphasis on tactics: how to deploy men in combat, techniques of patrol and arranging fields of fire to provide the best defensive protection...