Word: platoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serving his tour with Lansdale and the U.S. embassy, his only reservations about the war revolved around its conduct. Otherwise, as he wrote in the class notes for his 15th Harvard reunion, his role as a combat observer compensated for "a somewhat unfulfilled career as a Marine platoon leader and company commander during peacetime...
...Mamdouh Salem, who flew to Cairo two weeks ago and informed Sadat that Gomaa's secret organization planned to assassinate him during a scheduled visit to the University of Alexandria. Sadat abruptly postponed the trip. Salem, who was later rewarded with the post of Interior Minister, led a platoon of Republican Guards-a force assigned to protect the President-to Gomaa's office. They took into custody the chief of intelligence, Talaat-who tried to burn a number of incriminating tapes-and placed Gomaa under house arrest...
...accountants to Japan for a six-month study to find out what it costs to build a tanker there. At the end of six months they had had a lot of hot baths and a lot of polite conversation, but they did not find out the real costs. A platoon of cost accountants could make it a life's work and still not find...
...platoon-strength group staged a "search and destroy" raid on the Capitol steps, rounding up a collection of girls in coolie hats, shouting, "Kill the gooks!" and splattering the scene with red paint. Congress was the veterans' chief target. As John Kerry, leader of Dewey Canyon III, won warm applause for his testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (see box, following page), knots of other veterans buttonholed Senators and Representatives. One constituent of Brooklyn Democrat John Rooney complained: "He gerrymandered me out of his district on the spot." Another group found itself riding the Senate subway with...
...Platoon Leader...