Word: platooning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Duden crouches near the shoulder of a small dirt road, the objective only 100 meters away. From another platoon, gunfire breaks out. "Those idiots!" Duden grumbles. "This is a surprise attack, and now the aggressors know where we are." A fire team moves to a ridge, setting up machine guns to cover the platoon as it crosses the road...
...yells the platoon commander. The troops rush into an open field. Gunfire cracks in the air. The Marines capture the helicopter pad in ten minutes. While Duden helps guard the perimeter, the others disarm the P.O.W.s and search them for coded messages. "If we capture a female aggressor, we're not allowed to search her," Duden explains. "That's one concession they had to make...
133O: "We're moving out!" yells the platoon commander. Duden slaps on her helmet and shoulders her knapsack. The next objective, a bivouac site, is about 1,500 meters away. Firing breaks out. Duden crouches with the M-16 on her shoulder. The platoon wades through a stream 3 ft. deep. Darnell, barreling ahead, pushes past Duden. "Don't you ever shove me again!" she shouts after...
Ford said he decided to platoon because "Walter (Diaz) and Lee (Nelson) are two very similar players," who like to work the ball up from midfield. Ford says he is looking for "more aggressive" players to complement Diaz and Nelson up front and put the ball...
...ball is fired into the Princeton end and Harvard changes on the fly..." You could almost imagine such a play-by-play account of the soccer team's efforts Saturday at Princeton's Poe field as Crimson coach George Ford went to a platoon system to ignite his beleaguered forward line...