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...Marine Platoon Leaders Course (about 3,000 students) is for men over 16 who are in their freshman, sophomore or junior years, and will not be more than 26 when they are commissioned. Those accepted must take two 45-day courses in any two summers they choose while in college. Service obligation: three years on active duty as officers...
Died. General Charles Pelot Summerall, 88, onetime (1926-31) Army Chief of Staff, and president (1931-53) of The Citadel, a military college of South Carolina; in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital. West Pointer Summerall. commissioned in 1892, commanded an artillery platoon in the storming of Peking in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion. Armed with his famed credo. "Artillery exists only to protect and support the infantry," he commanded the ist Division and later the V Army Corps in France in World War I, was credited with achieving artillery effects without precedent in U.S. military history...
Outside the little northern Texas town of Krum last week, a platoon of railroad workers spaced gft. ties along a new track bed, spotted rails over tie plates and pounded home the spikes. This was no ordinary track-laying; the gandy dancers were laying the longest stretch of new line-49 miles-in the U.S. in 20 years...
...into combat, full of zeal and professional hopes ("Promotions do not come to young lieutenants promenading on the Champs Elysées"). He soon learns that he is the New Boy at the Old School; his fellow officers reminisce about when the war was really tough; his hard-bitten platoon promptly dubs him "Battling Baby-Face...
...takes Freshman Garcet several lonely months before he breaks through to acceptance, and he does it the hard way. In a successful dawn attack on a Chinese hill position, much of his platoon is wiped out, and he is badly wounded. Back in the aid station, he hears from a dying platoon member the first words of greeting, eloquent in their sense of sudden loss: "I wish I had gotten to know you better...