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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...
...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...
DIED. JAY BERWANGER, 88, first winner of the Heisman Trophy in 1935 and first player ever drafted by the NFL; in Oak Brook, Ill. In the days before platoon football, Berwanger had to pass, block, tackle, punt, kick off, boot extra points and return punts. Unimpressed by football fame, he stored the trophy at the home of his aunt, who used it as a doorstop...
...version of the first mission has already been told. In 2001 the New York Times Magazine published an article by Gregory Vistica, alleging that a platoon led by Kerrey slaughtered unarmed women and children during a night raid in the Mekong Delta. Kerrey had not spoken publicly about the assault before the Times story and challenged some of the interpretations that were put upon his conduct. Those seeking the definitive account of the attack will not find it here. Kerrey says, quite plainly, "I remember very little of what happened in a clear and reliable way." What he does remember...
...Thai army platoon fanning out around the village of Wiang Haeng in northern Chiang Mai province was expecting a routine patrol. That overcast afternoon in late March, the soldiers were securing the area for a special visit by Thailand's Queen Sirikit. But along the Thai-Burmese border?where insurgents, smugglers and drug dealers hold sway?little can be taken for granted. Suddenly, the Thai troops were under fire. The enemy: a unit of the United Wa State Army, a tribal force from Burma. Allied with the government in Rangoon and notorious for its dominance of the narcotics trade...