Word: platooning
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...Just kill people to the north," a sergeant bellows. "Light him up," cries another soldier as a gunman approaches. On Nov. 17, even as Representative John Murtha was stirring debate on Capitol Hill by calling for an immediate redeployment of U.S. troops, the young soldiers of Blue Platoon were amid a citywide battle that revealed just how hard it will be to pull U.S. troops out soon...
Throughout the day, members of Blue Platoon had been hunkered down in their battle-scarred observation post (dubbed "Hotel") in Ramadi, sniping at reconnaissance units. Then, four hours before Murtha spoke, al-Qaeda let loose an attack on all five American outposts in the city--an assault that a hardened Army sniper dubbed a mini--Tet offensive, referring to the coordinated military actions the Viet Cong launched across South Vietnam one fateful...
...Qaeda's top man in Iraq, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, popped up in Ramadi. The insurgents' ability to preserve and regenerate their forces is a hallmark of the war. The official American tally for the Nov. 17 battle in Ramadi: 33 insurgents killed, 1 Marine slightly wounded. But Blue Platoon knows it has not delivered a knockout punch...
...Nosal ’08, a Dems member and organizer of the event. Nosal said that in honor of Support Our Troops week, the Dems and HRC have decided to support troops in Iraq for the rest of the year. “We’ve adopted a platoon of soldiers in Iraq and, in the next few months, we’re hoping to collect magazines, CD’s, DVD’s—anything that would bring a smile to their faces over the holidays,” she said. Following Nosal?...
...sudden whoosh signaled a rocket-propelled grenade heading straight for the 3rd platoon position. But bad luck for the militants: it struck a lamppost before it could reach them, exploding harmlessly...