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...says he saw dozens of heavily armed soldiers emerge from the Black Hawks. Then he heard a loud explosion from the house followed by gunfire from the rebels, who were screaming obscenities in the local Tetum language. The Australians charged up the hill, killing two of the rebels. (A platoon of New Zealand troops also took part in the raid...
...this season, rookie Kyle Richter.Year after year, goaltender Justin Tobe has found himself backing up a teammate. It hasn’t always been for the entirety of the schedule—Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 has started the past two seasons with a platoon in net—but sooner or later, Tobe has found himself sitting on the bench.“My junior year, my second year here [after transferring from Michigan State], was a bit of a disappointment in terms of not playing a lot,” he recalls...
...Because I’m fast, [I] stick out,” Barrett said. “The drill instructors like having the best person in their platoon. It helps get on their good side...
...scalp, and he has a tattoo of a helmeted skull on his left forearm with TANKER printed below. Like many other soldiers at the COP he relishes the chance to drive towards gunfire and separate the combatants in Iraq's sectarian war. That was routine for his platoon until a few days ago, when the violence suddenly dropped almost to nothing. One soldier said he used to doze off at night by imagining the gunfire was the sound of rain on a tin roof. Now the nights are virtually silent. That's unusual for any Baghdad neighborhood, and eerie...
...attack on the COP would send a powerful message, and Charlie Company has redoubled its effort to secure the compound. On Wednesday night a platoon sergeant taped "CCP" in giant red letters to a wall in one of the COP's main rooms. "CCP" indicates a casualty collection point, where wounded soldiers would be gathered for treatment and possible evacuation. "I think I'm a big, fat target right now," Peterson said...