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...sergeant has pulled him out of formation. While his battalion marches behind him, Hickman is drilled separately. And his separateness is embarassing. He pivots too slowly or too fast, he swings his arms haphazardly, he can hardly keep step with the sergeant's call. When he rejoins his platoon, the training sergeant bears down hard: "You're out of step Hickman. You're out of step Hickman. You're out of step Hickman." And Hickman just keeps stumbling along, laughing when he turns in the wrong direction, or when he jars the dogface in front...
...utilities in the private apartment at Fort Benning that is considered the legal equivalent of a cell. There, under the relaxed guard of a single MP, with a color television set and regular visits from his girl friend Anne Moore to help him pass the time, the Charlie Company platoon leader who led his men into a small hamlet called My Lai more than three years ago serves his imprisonment...
...many members of Galley's own platoon contradicted Galley's testimony about his role in the carnage and Galley's memory of the action was so self-servingly selective that Hammer concludes flatly: "Calley lied and lied blatantly on the stand." He was also ill-advised by his attorneys, especially his civilian counsel, George W. Latimer, whose defense strategy was "confusing and confused, rambling and directionless." The defense at various times argued that: 1) there was no large-scale killing at My Lai; 2) yes, there was a lot of killing but it had been done...
...serving his tour with Lansdale and the U.S. embassy, his only reservations about the war revolved around its conduct. Otherwise, as he wrote in the class notes for his 15th Harvard reunion, his role as a combat observer compensated for "a somewhat unfulfilled career as a Marine platoon leader and company commander during peacetime...
...Mamdouh Salem, who flew to Cairo two weeks ago and informed Sadat that Gomaa's secret organization planned to assassinate him during a scheduled visit to the University of Alexandria. Sadat abruptly postponed the trip. Salem, who was later rewarded with the post of Interior Minister, led a platoon of Republican Guards-a force assigned to protect the President-to Gomaa's office. They took into custody the chief of intelligence, Talaat-who tried to burn a number of incriminating tapes-and placed Gomaa under house arrest...