Word: platooner
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Nyweide, who had endured a particularly rough outing the previous weekend against Dartmouth, turned in a three-hit shutout in the opener. In the second game, Sheffield—who had been a JV player, a midweek pitcher, a member of the right field platoon and finally a weekend starter—could call himself the winning pitcher in the series clincher...
Cohen, who will lead about 30 cadets as a platoon sergeant next fall, says he will teach basic classes, like first aid or shelter-building, to younger students...
...just the Palestinians who watched their men die in the alleys of Jenin. On Day 7, Sergeant Major Dror Harazi, 34, with 14 years of service in the reserves, was ordered into a house overlooking an alley where a platoon of the 5th Brigade had been ambushed. Gunmen were firing at the Israelis from a building above the alley. With Lieut. Eyal Yoel, an officer from a kibbutz outside Jerusalem, Harazi went into a half-built house to provide covering fire for the injured. Yoel crossed the room and tripped the wire of a booby trap; the explosion knocked...
...guns mounted on the roof. "An attack can happen at any time, any place," warns army intelligence officer Captain Adrain Ade, an assault-rifle on his lap, as he scans passing villages for signs of rebel activity. His destination today is the distant village of Montasik, where another TNI platoon is camped out in a disused rice warehouse. Conditions are cramped and squalid, and the sense of siege is palpable. Platoon leader Captain Heri Sumitro says his men came under fire three weeks before, while patrolling the village. "We wanted to return fire but there were children...
Tzameret's son Idan, 23, is a lieutenant in an army platoon involved in the current incursions in the West Bank. Before he goes on a mission, he calls her cell phone. "I love you very much, Mom," he says, then hangs up. Tzameret, a trained masseuse who practices the Japanese natural healing art of reiki, lights a candle next to Idan's photo and sends out energy to protect him. She draws Sanskrit symbols in the air and puts out telepathic lines to her son. Then she knows he's all right. But the reiki alone doesn't work...