Word: platoons
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...platoon of sophomore Mickey Kropf and freshman Schuyler Mann continue to work well. The pair split this weekend’s games behind the plate...
...troops at Dara have been sent to wipe away al-Qaeda's western defenses and sweep over the mountains into Shah-i-Kot. At the same time the 101st Airborne is pressing down from the north, while the enemy?s retreat is blocked by the 10th Mountain Platoon and Special Forces to the east and south. But near Dara the bombs are still falling on the near side of the mountains, meaning the Afghan combat group here still has some way to go. "My next rotation to the front is in three days and I'll be up there...
From here on out, York will likely continue to platoon his goalies. Mazzoleni, it appears, may follow suit. Both Crothers and Grumet-Morris, he said, will play in next weekend’s series against St. Lawrence and Clarkson...
Mukhtar is an infantryman in Afghanistan's rebel army. He can shoot a man in the beard from a standing position at 200 m or point out camouflaged Taliban bunkers through miles of dust. His platoon leader says the green-eyed soldier is the finest he has ever commanded, and Mukhtar takes the compliment with a shrug of his skinny shoulders. "I have been in the army for a long time," he says. "So I should be good at my job." Indeed, Mukhtar is a four-year veteran of Afghanistan's draining desert war. But he is only 15 years...
...hopes to fire a rocket-propelled grenade. "I am small now," he says, squaring his tiny shoulders. "But I will be big when I shoot the Taliban who killed my aunt and uncle." By avenging their deaths, Najibullah is carrying on family custom. His father tracked down the Soviet platoon that killed relatives in the 1980s and lobbed fatal grenades at their encampment. "If I am murdered by the Taliban, then my sons will honor my name by killing the enemy," says the prepubescent Najibullah. Despite hopes for peace, some Afghan traditions may be impossible to break...