Word: platooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editing of the cover story brought a personal expertise to their critical evaluations. Washington Correspondent John Mulliken, who first suggested the story, traces his martial experience back to a tour of duty in Culver Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1940. He won a Silver Star as a platoon leader in The Netherlands during World War II. Since then, journalistic service has taken him to other wars: the Hungarian Revolution, the Congo uprising and Viet Nam. For the past six years, his Washington assignment has kept him close to the long, echoing corridors of the Pentagon. Laurence Barrett...
...horns when a British ship appeared. A herd of goats was supposedly assigned to clog the airstrip, and there was desultory talk of using sharp rocks to block island beaches against infiltrators. Undaunted, the British mustered a force of about 300 men, including the Red Devils, a Royal Marine platoon and bobbies from Scotland Yard, to set up a pacification program. When the British surged ashore, automatic weapons at the ready, there were only a few children to meet them. Most Anguillians were just waking up. Not a shot was fired in anger...
...Prime Minister is not exactly traveling light - or alone. Against the chance that Africans infuriated by British arms shipments to Gowon might attack Wilson during the visit, the 11,000-ton amphibious assault ship Fearless will drop anchor off Lagos with an extra platoon of marines aboard...
What about officer training programs such as the US Marine Corps' Platoon Leader Program which required no on-Campus training for college students? That program is not popular because it requires two summer training camps instead of one, plus three years of active duty. College men are increasingly reluctant to give more than one summer of their college years to officer training...
What about officer training programs such as the US Marine Corps' Platoon Leader Program which requires no on-campus training for college students? That program is not popular because it requires two summer training camps instead of one, plus three years of active duty. College men are increasingly reluctant to give more than one summer of their college years to officer training...