Word: platoons
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...Rozsa turned to journalism and arrived to cover the Balkans War for the BBC World Service and a Spanish newspaper. But he quickly dropped the pen to fight the remnants of Yugoslav federal forces alongside the Croats, becoming commander of a brigade of 380 foreigners, the First International Platoon, known by its Croatian initials, PIV. (See a story about the crime wave clouding Croatia's future...
...stripping down and starting over. A platoon of TIME reporters and pollsters fanned out to every corner of the country to measure - anecdotally and empirically - what's changed in the way we set our priorities and spend our money since the Great Recession began. Most people think the pain will be lasting and the effects permanent: only 12% expect economic recovery to begin within six months, half believe it will be another year or two, and 14% believe we are at the start of a long-term decline. (See TIME's special report on how Americans have adjusted...
...near waters inhabited by pirates - and the hijacking of this ship would dwarf the Somali pirate hijacking of the Saudi tanker last year. To protect this cargo, at least 15 Navy personnel, known as an Embarked Security Team, will be bunked aboard the container ship. "That's half a platoon strength onboard and they will be packing an awful lot of ammo and huge amount of firepower," says one ex-special forces soldier. "They will be Navy Seals with side arms and MP5Ks [compact submachine guns] for close quarters, and rifles and heavy machine guns to repel armed attacks...
...morning a bullet ripped through the thick fog blanketing Restrepo, then another. "We got contact," some one screamed. The soldiers, part of first platoon, Bravo Company, 1-26 of the First Infantry Division, jumped to their firing positions, and squad leaders started shouting mortar coordinates into their radios. "I can't see s---," said one. "Where's it coming from?" Reports of more fire started coming in from the Korengal Outpost, the main base, and then from Dallas, a nearby observation post where one of the men had been hit by shrapnel. It was a coordinated attack; the dense clouds...
During his junior year at Princeton University, Donovan Campbell decided to take the Marine Corps officer training course. Good for the resume, he thought - until he grew to embrace the Corps' ideals of service, honor and sacrifice. Campbell was soon a lieutenant in charge of a platoon thrust into Ramadi, Iraq in 2004, right as that city's insurgency blossomed. Unlike Fallujah, a city full of jihadists with very few civilians, Ramadi was "a much blurrier battle, a classic urban counterinsurgency, a never-ending series of engagements throughout the heart of a teeming city where our faceless enemies blended seamlessly...