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...Viet Nam War, in short, has produced its own version of the Orwellian Newspeak: Newcount. TIME Correspondent David Greenway recalls overhearing an American company commander, whose men had just found three enemy bodies, discussing with his platoon leaders what number to report to the battalion commander. "They decided on 20," writes Greenway. "But when I got back to Danang, I found the figure sent to Saigon on this engagement had grown...
...soldiers, members of the 3rd Platoon, Delta troop, 7th Battalion, 17th Air Calvary, declined to use their names because they feared disciplinary action by their superiors...
...only My Lai trial now under way is that of Lieut. William Calley Jr., a platoon commander in Medina's Company C. His trial has been delayed while he undergoes sanity tests ordered by the presiding judge. A major contention of his defense is that he was only carrying out the orders of his superior officer...
...solder the final link in this chain of traditionalism, I joined the Marine Corps' Platoon Leader Corps (ROTC). My father had been a Captain in the Marines during WWII, my brother had been a Corporal in the Korean War, and a publicity sheet called The Marine Corps Reservist had come to my home every month along with the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine...
...Harvard knows how many "Harvards" exist under the umbrella of the institutional title. Yet to others I have met, it has always meant something either essentially threatening or something which has conveyed upon the bearer of it an almost beatific quality. From my Marine training I remember: a platoon commander from West Point screaming in my face that I had written "Harvard College" rather than "Harvard University" on my registration forms as some kind of subtle joke; peers in training stunned and disturbed when I was required to attend study hall because I had flunked an exam...