Word: platooner
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...accountants to Japan for a six-month study to find out what it costs to build a tanker there. At the end of six months they had had a lot of hot baths and a lot of polite conversation, but they did not find out the real costs. A platoon of cost accountants could make it a life's work and still not find...
...platoon-strength group staged a "search and destroy" raid on the Capitol steps, rounding up a collection of girls in coolie hats, shouting, "Kill the gooks!" and splattering the scene with red paint. Congress was the veterans' chief target. As John Kerry, leader of Dewey Canyon III, won warm applause for his testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (see box, following page), knots of other veterans buttonholed Senators and Representatives. One constituent of Brooklyn Democrat John Rooney complained: "He gerrymandered me out of his district on the spot." Another group found itself riding the Senate subway with...
...punishment?demotion by one grade?for Calley's division commander, Major General Samuel Koster, and his assistant, Brigadier General George Young Jr., for failing to report the incident. General Koster was also officially censured. Those relatively minor strictures against general officers, compared with the harsher treatment of a young platoon leader, made the Army vulnerable to the suggestion that it had singled Calley out to carry the can for My Lai. Two sergeants in Calley's company were court-martialed for assault with intent to commit murder and acquitted...
...widely discussed case last spring, Army Lieut. James Duffy was tried for ordering his sergeant to kill an ARVN deserter and record him as a Viet Cong suspect. Justifying his action, Duffy explained: "I know in my case, platoon leaders never got any guidance on treatment of prisoners. The only thing we ever heard was to get more body count, kill more V.C. If you didn't have a lot of body counts, they would think you were a poor unit." The military jurors convicted Duffy of premeditated murder ?then were dismayed to find that he faced a mandatory...
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