Word: platooner
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...carry on with stolen and imported weapons and men against the most sophisticated weaponry that U.S. money can buy. "Hatred" doesn't fit; "respect" might be closer to the mark. It might be easier to work up some fear of Ho Chi Minh if he were leading a platoon of Viet Cong down the main street of Honolulu...
...battalion providing security for the road was attacked by two battalions of North Viet Nam's 324-B Division-part of some 30,000 Red regulars operating in an area defended by 6,000 Marines. Nearly 100 mortar and rocket shells rained down on the leathernecks. Then, recalls Platoon Sergeant John E. Lewis, 22, "the enemy came across the paddies in waves like a herd of turtles." The battle raged for five hours. While the Marines on the ground fought at times hand to hand, F-4 Phantoms dropped napalm on the attackers. When the North Vietnamese finally broke...
...Honest. Everywhere, skeptics were alert for signs of a fix, but hard evidence of dishonesty was hard to come by. In the village of Thai Hiep Thanh in Tay Ninh province on the Cambodian border, a reporter watched suspiciously as Warrant Officer Le Van Thanh marched his platoon of armored troops into the school-house voting station. Had he told his men how to vote? he was asked. No, he replied, why should he? He himself had voted for Civilian Huong. On the outskirts of the Delta city of Can Tho, Farmer Ly Van Tarn found the procedures...
...Chicken Vendor. The French were just then opening up their first officer class for the newly created Vietnamese army. Thieu enlisted and graduated at 26 with a second lieutenant's commission and orders to take command of an infantry platoon in the Delta. It was Viet Minh country, and the platoon got a hostile reception. For two weeks, the peasants would not even sell it any food. Then one day the Viet Minh mortared Thieu's little camp. After the bombardment, an old man suddenly appeared with eggs and chickens to sell. "I knew why he had come...
Among the non-western adventure shows is Garrison's Gorillas (ABC), a World War II drama about a U.S. platoon of temporarily paroled cons working behind German lines. For those who have not seen Mission: Impossible on TV or The Professionals and The Dirty Dozen in the movies, Garrison's Filthy Foursome might have some appeal; the video Nazis, however, are shown to be so inept that it is a wonder the war lasted so long...