Word: platoons
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...Sergeant!" he yelled at Platoon Sergeant Tom Abbott, his second-in-command. "They're getting close. We need to get out of here...
Lieut. Brad Maroyka, commander of Charlie Company's 1st Platoon, was watching his two squads fire at al-Qaeda targets from his position about 150 yards north of the command post. "We've got enemy moving up on the west side," Maroyka radioed company commander Captain Nelson Kraft, who was back near the command post. "We are destroying them, but they are returning fire...
...explosion had taken out the leaders of the 1st Platoon. With both the lieutenant and sergeant out of commission, command fell on the shoulders of Perez, the senior soldier left standing. "Sergeant Perez!" Kraft yelled over the roar of war to Perez, around 75 yards away. "You're now the platoon leader...
...month later, Perez's platoon was ordered into northern Afghanistan to help quell a prison riot. His unit guarded John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban, and protected the body of Johnny (Mike) Spann, the cia operative who was killed in the uprising and was the first American to die in the conflict. The contrast between the two Americans struck Perez. "It was tough to look at Walker, knowing he is an American and fighting for the other side and that he was the reason Mike Spann--a great American...
...Like the platoon of Babbitts who succeeded in having the homeless camps removed from Hyannis, the Cape Cod Times seems to believe that removing homeless people from tourists’ view will resolve the problem of homelessness—that the only problem with homelessness is its unattractiveness and its undermining of the Cape’s bucolic image...