Word: platooner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dialogue between a mother and child: "Mother, where's Daddy?" "Don't ask me questions. I'm very worried about him." "But I miss Daddy very much. Why is he gone so long?" Then the music and voices faded slowly into the distance, and the platoon settled back to a restless sleep...
...Coach John Yoviesin continues to start sophomores Carter Lord and Joe Cook at ends as he did against Dartmouth, the offensive line will boast only two lettermen, guards Roger Noback and Dick Berdik, who has been shifted from the defensive platoon...
Ranger cadets will study preventative measures for ambush, defensive tactics for units under ambush, and operations in difficult terrain. They will deal essentially with the "leadership and tactics of small patrol units within larger combat battalions," Shean explained. The platoon will learn techniques of first aid, communications, water survival, land navigation, and demolitions, he said...
Captain Shean believes some members of the current Ranger platoon will continue next year as leaders of the unit. These advanced R.O.T.C. cadets will conduct some of the platoon's training activities...
...went, and Bill Leftwich, one of the 6,500 U.S. advisers who sometimes feel that they are the "forgotten men" in the new war, went too. The brittle Yen had run through five U.S. advisers until Leftwich came along. By quiet persuasion, Leftwich got Yen to add an engineering platoon, a 75-mm. howitzer platoon, a support and a signal detachment to what had been a medieval band. Since then, Colonel Yen and his men have been killing V.C. at a 9-to-1 ratio...