Word: riflemen
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...Trails thinned out. Brush materialized in the darkness. Then, ahead, dim against the glow of the sickly crescent moon, Sergeant Main made out the ridge he was seeking. Nine Marines fanned quietly out to establish a base of fire. Main, a second sergeant with a submachine-gun and two riflemen circled with infinite caution toward the top, sniffing like animals for the smell of garlic, the telltale odor of the Chinese soldier...
...volunteered for the Marine Corps, spent one month in training at Parris Island, and was shipped forthwith to France as a second lieutenant, to help erect-although he did not know it then- a milestone in Marine Corps history. Marines had fought in every sort of battle-as riflemen in the tops of sailing vessels, as landing parties and assault units against every sort of foe, from the British at Trenton and Princeton to the Boxers in Peking. But in France they fought for the first time as a brigade within an infantry division...
This year's riflemen finished the season last weekend by taking fourth play behind B.C., the Coast Guard Academ and Yale in the Southern New England Intercollegiate Rifle League championships Nine teams competed. The squad's record in regular league competition was seven wins and six losses...
...Varsity riflemen will try to even their season's record at 4 wins and 4 losses today at New London in a triangular match with the University of Connecticut and the Coast Guard Academy...
...Pearkes saw it: "In Europe there are hundreds of thousands of young men available for the infantry regiments of their own armies. Canada [has] sent the very type of soldier most plentiful in Europe, placing reliance on numbers rather than hitting power. It is not a few extra riflemen that are required . . . but highly mobile, hard-hitting units able to develop the greatest possible volume of fire with the minimum number of men. We can never compete with Russia, matching...