Word: platoons
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Kevin, who had served in the same platoon, recoiled at the "calculated lies," including a Silver Star awarded his brother because the Army needed a hero as much as it feared a scandal. It was weeks before the Tillmans learned the truth. "We've all been betrayed," Pat's mother Mary Tillman said. "We never thought they would use him the way they...
...this week those groups set their contentions aside in a bipartisan drive to collect donations for American troops. The Support Our Troops drive has worked this week to procure donations of money and goods, which will be used to assemble care packages for U.S. troops through the Adopt a Platoon program. The effort, coordinated by the Harvard College Democrats, the Harvard Republican Club (HRC), and the Harvard Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program, was designed to raise awareness of the sacrifice of American soldiers and their continued presence abroad. The drive ends today...
...This was a dilemma that Harvard struggled to resolve this year. After senior Justin Tobe and freshman Kyle Richter started the season in a platoon, Richter nabbed the job in January before ceding it to Tobe down the stretch...
...says he saw dozens of heavily armed soldiers emerge from the Black Hawks. Then he heard a loud explosion from the house followed by gunfire from the rebels, who were screaming obscenities in the local Tetum language. The Australians charged up the hill, killing two of the rebels. (A platoon of New Zealand troops also took part in the raid...
...this season, rookie Kyle Richter.Year after year, goaltender Justin Tobe has found himself backing up a teammate. It hasn’t always been for the entirety of the schedule—Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 has started the past two seasons with a platoon in net—but sooner or later, Tobe has found himself sitting on the bench.“My junior year, my second year here [after transferring from Michigan State], was a bit of a disappointment in terms of not playing a lot,” he recalls...