Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Training: 8 to 16 weeks basic, then, further specialized training and unit assignment...
...Training 6 to 9 weeks basic. Further specialized training of varying lengths, and final unit assignment...
Said one of the 2nd's regimental commanders: "If the [ROK] unit on our east flank had not collapsed, we would have piled so many Chinese on the minefields to our front that their own troops would not have been able to climb over the bodies. As it was, they got around my regiment. We slaughtered so many that their blood covered our boots because we had to walk over them to get into the new perimeter. They poured into our lines despite our tremendous firepower. They cut off companies and battalions. But as we pulled into...
...first such honor V.M.I. had ever paid to one of its sons. Appropriately, V.M.I. had chosen for the occasion the high point of the school year: New Market Day, the time when V.M.I. pays tribute to the cadets who marched forth as a unit during the Civil War to help stem the tide of the Union Army advance up the Shenandoah Valley. It was also a time when V.M.I. likes to look to its past and review the events that have made it one of the nation's crack military schools...
...adopted country, won the Military Cross and the Distinguished Service Order for his legendary exploits in World War II; of a brain tumor; in London. When the war began, Peniakoff was a sugar manufacturer in Egypt. He joined the British army, persuaded the brass to let him organize a unit of Commandos, who dubbed him "Popski" because of his tongue-tangling name. "Popski's Private Army" (its officially approved title) spent most of the war behind Axis lines in Africa and Italy, reconnoitered, freed prisoners, blew up fuel dumps, sometimes diverted whole enemy divisions to counter "major attacks" which...