Word: platoons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...light-infantry skills that an average G.I. might absorb in nearly a full year. The program includes everything from basic physical training to communications to the use of American weapons. Much of the emphasis will be on training the Salvadorans to operate as coordinated units on the squad, platoon and company levels. There will be instruction on day and night troop movements, as well as the ambush and counterambush tactics useful in an anti-guerrilla war. There will be, says a U.S. Army spokesman, "a lot of time in the field, and some very long days...
...Fort Benning, about 500 other Salvadoran trainees last month began a combined 14-week basic training and officers candidate course. American soldiers normally spend 38 weeks in these courses, emerging as combat infantry platoon leaders. The special program puts a high emphasis on tactics: how to deploy men in combat, techniques of patrol and arranging fields of fire to provide the best defensive protection...
Wherever Brezhnev went, he was accompanied by a platoon of burly security men (some of whom carried submachine guns in briefcases) wearing the obligatory fedoras and leather coats. All together the West Germans contributed 10,000 security police to protect the Soviet leader during his three-day stay...
...fill the gap on the backline, Scalise will move Laura Mayer from midfield to full back and platoon Jenny Rayport and Merry Ann Moore in Mayer's spot. The arrangement worked successfully at the Easterns with the rest of the midfield--Greeley, Cat Ferrante, and Inga Larson, with help from back striker Alicia Carrillo--performing superlatively...
Witness Jenny Rayport and Merry Ann Moore, reserves most of the season, coming off the bench to platoon for injured Ellen Jakovic and playing a large role in defusing a UConn offense that only once this season has been held to less than two goals...