Word: platoons
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...Battalion, 2nd Marines' Easy Company, part of the 1st U.S. Marine Expeditionary Force, are withdrawing under fire. At 4:30 that morning, 150 Marines had moved into the southern edge of the city to destroy two bunkers that insurgents were using to fire on their positions. Easy's Third Platoon moved in to inspect one of the buildings, which had been hit the day before by a 500-lb. bomb. Platoon Commander 2nd Lieut. Ilario Pantano reported back that they had found gun emplacements and binoculars and that the building was still usable by insurgents. Another Marine later recalled...
...Portrait of a Platoon," written by Romesh Ratnesar and Michael Weisskopf and edited by Lisa Beyer and Steve Koepp, won the National Headliner Award for war coverage, while Joe Klein won first place in the magazine-column category. Weisskopf and Nachtwey won the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage from the Los Angeles Press Club. And Weisskopf, Brian Bennett and Michael Ware won honorable mention for best magazine reporting from abroad from the Overseas Press Club for a series of Iraq pieces...
...named Abdullah tells a U.S. sergeant. "Can I shoot them?" The sergeant tries to calm him, explaining that the rules of engagement do not permit the use of deadly force against hecklers. At this point, Adnan, 37, former explosives specialist in the Iraqi army who is one of the platoon sergeants for the battalion, intervenes. "Cool down," he tells Abdullah. "Just remember that everyone here hates us, and keep on with your work...
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, 57, has roused passions and courted controversy in films ranging from Platoon to JFK. After a five-year hiatus, he's back with another project causing a stir, Looking for Fidel, a documentary about the Cuban dictator about to debut on HBO. TIME's Jeffrey Ressner caught up with Stone at his editing room in Santa Monica, Calif...
That line gives a clue to the approach of director John Lee Hancock (The Rookie) and the platoon of writers: they want simultaneously to criticize and celebrate U.S. imperialism. The good intentions and lousy planning of the Alamo's defense make it seem like a 19th century dress rehearsal for Vietnam. A shot of American corpses dangling from a tree has an eerie resemblance to images this month of a bridge in Fallujah, Iraq. But the Alamo massacre is only Act II. Houston's quick victory at the subsequent Battle of San Jacinto seized Texas from Mexican control and allows...