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The day-watch platoon commander, Lt. Rinker, was calling out the beat assignments, but Matson couldn't make the names mean anything.
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Brown Corpus
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day-watch and out
Now, as he passed the open counter that divided the assembly room from the business office, he nodded and said good night to the station keeper and his clerks, not stopping to hear the day-watch playback of his chewing out.
platoon and commander
Of course importance is a matter of perspective ; what is important to a divisional commander is rarely the same as what is important to an infantry platoon commander.
As a 22-year-old platoon commander in the 1st Battalion Irish Guards, he served in the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) in 1914.
Upon completion of The Basic School at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, in October 1967, he was ordered to the Republic of Vietnam, where he served as a platoon and company commander with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines.
In 1948, Rehavam Ze ' evi was a platoon commander in the IDF.
He served as an infantry platoon leader and company commander in the Phillipines during the Philippine – American War and several other guerrilla uprisings.
He served briefly in the desert campaign as a platoon commander with the Rifle Brigade during World War II.
Thiệu started as the commander of an infantry platoon fighting against the Việt Minh.
He served as a platoon leader and company commander in the Marine 2nd Infantry Division, and after satisfying his two year Reserve Officer commitment was discharged from the Corps as a first lieutenant in 1957.
He is eventually promoted to platoon commander.
The commander organizes the reconnaissance platoon based on: 1 ) mission, 2 ) enemy, 3 ) terrain, 4 ) troops and support available, ( 5 ) time available, ( 6 ) and civil considerations.
The commander analyzes the mission to determine whether the platoon will conduct these types of reconnaissance separately or in conjunction with each other.
A platoon is typically the smallest military unit led by a commissioned officer — the platoon leader or platoon commander, usually a lieutenant.
In the Australian Army, a platoon has twenty-four soldiers organized into three eight-man sections plus a lieutenant as platoon commander and a sergeant as platoon second in command, accompanied by a platoon radioman and medic ( full strength of twenty-eight men ).
In the British Army, a rifle platoon from an infantry company consists of three sections of eight men, plus a signaller ( radio operator ), a platoon sergeant, the platoon commander ( either a second lieutenant or lieutenant ) and a mortar man operating a light mortar ( full strength of 27 men and one officer ).
An officer was referred to as " platoon commander " while a WO III in the same position was called a " Platoon Sergeant Major " or PSM.
In practice, usually a Second Lieutenant is appointed the platoon commander, and will eventually be promoted to this rank.
platoon and was
It was no coincidence that Goulding was one of the most beloved platoon leaders in the regiment.
In 1966, the Portuguese created an experimental horse platoon, to operate against the guerrillas in the high grass region of the Eastern Angola, in which each soldier was armed with a G3 assault rifle to combat on foot and with an automatic pistol to fire on horseback.
The experimental horse platoon was so successful that its entire parent battalion was transformed from an armored reconnaissance unit to a three squadron horse battalion known as the " Dragoons of Angola ".
One of the conventions of the genre was to depict a racial and socioeconomic cross-section of the United States, either a platoon on the front lines or soldiers training on a base, which come together to fight for the good of the country.
Individual shots were unlikely to hit, but a platoon firing repeatedly could produce a ' beaten ground ' effect similar to light artillery or machine guns ; but experience in World War I showed that long-range fire was best left to the machine gun.
The screenplay was based on a novel about a platoon of German soldiers in 1943 on the verge of utter collapse on the Crimean Peninsula.
At Fort Knox, he was a platoon guide and graduated from United States Army Basic Training January 18, 1964, one week before his marriage to Karolyn.
The first US Airborne Unit was a test platoon formed from part of the 29th Infantry Regiment, in July 1940.
The platoon leader was 1st Lieutenant William T. Ryder, who made the first paratroop jump for the US Military on August 13, 1940 at Lawson Field, Fort Benning, GA from a B-18 Bomber.
Michael Caine's first film role was as one of the privates in George Baker's platoon in the 1956 film A Hill in Korea.
A grand ceremony was held in Buckingham Palace to commemorate a platoon of pigeons that braved the battlefields of Normandy to deliver vital plans to Allied forces on the fringes of Germany.
While 26 U. S. soldiers were initially charged with criminal offenses for their actions at Mỹ Lai, only Second Lieutenant William Calley, a platoon leader in Charlie Company, was convicted.
We intend to demonstrate that My Lai was no unusual occurrence, other than, perhaps, the number of victims killed all in one place, all at one time, all by one platoon of us.
Brand, a Sergeant and platoon leader, was wounded in action along the Weser River on April 7, 1945.
An intense six month course designed to turn out officers capable of leading a platoon in Vietnam was offered to National Servicemen.
The training provided at OTU Scheyville was specifically designed to turn out officers capable of leading a platoon in Vietnam.
For a variety of reasons, Serling was transferred to the 511th's demolition platoon ( nicknamed " The Death Squad " for its high casualty rate ).
Levy was delivering a comic monologue for the platoon as it rested under a palm tree, when a food crate dropped from above, decapitating him.
The first army dog platoon to go overseas in the Pacific was the 25th Quartermaster Corps War Dog Platoon, under the command of 1st Lt. Bruce D. Walker.
platoon and calling
Seeing that the leading platoon was suffering heavy casualties, Chowne rushed forward and knocked out two light machine guns with grenades and then, calling on his men to follow him and firing his sub machine gun from the hip, he charged the position.
Col. Hakeem fortunately managed to avoid the trap by calling out Lt. Rafiquddin Sarkar, 3 EBR platoon leader and keeping him in his jeep before opening fire, and returned to Saidpur after a firefight erupted.
platoon and out
Not that he gave a damn what the grapevine sent out about Killpath's little speech on the comportment of platoon commanders.
However, in some situations, especially when deep behind enemy lines, the actual attack will be carried out by a platoon, a company-sized unit will be deployed to support the attack group, setting up and maintaining a forward patrol harbour from which the attacking force will deploy, and to which they will retire after the attack.
Henry repeatedly advanced in front of the platoon he commanded, drawing machine-gun fire so that the German nests could be located and wiped out by his men.
Soon after the patrol landed, a nearby platoon of Japanese naval troops attacked and almost completely wiped out the Marine patrol.
Just before they start out, the platoon is shelled by German artillery, causing Bettis ( Richard Jaeckel ) to panic and run away.
Usually the executions were carried out by the regimental military police platoon, or in the case of spies, by the local military police.
* Infantry: one mechanised infantry platoon usually consists out of one one command-and medical company, three mechanised infantry elements, and one support company which has 3 platoons with heavy mortars and 1 ( later 3 ) platoon ( s ) with anti-tank missiles ( TOW ).
Additionally, Chandler describes the advance as also a British development of the platoon firing system in which troops mounting an attack continue to advance to give fire by stepping out ahead of the rest of the marching battalion, when they are done and reloading the other platoons advance ahead of them and give fire in turn.
Twenty-two out of his platoon of thirty men were killed ; altogether the Welsh Guards lost forty-eight men and ninety-seven were injured.
However, Slotkin points out that ethnic and racial harmony within this platoon is predicated upon racist hatred for the Japanese enemy: " the emotion which enables the platoon to transcend racial prejudice is itself a virulent expression of racial hatred.
The two battalions — totaling 767 men and supported by a platoon of 43 men of the 3rd Reconnaissance Troop — moved out at 01: 30 and moved in the darkness along a drainage ditch in column formation.
After a scene in which ex-hippie Zoyd Wheeler dives through a window, something he is required to do yearly in order to keep receiving mental disability checks, the action of the novel opens with the resurfacing of DEA agent Brock Vond, who ( through a platoon of agents ) forces Zoyd and his 14-year-old daughter Prairie out of their house.
As Columbus explained, his inspiration came from his loft, when at night " what sounded like a platoon of mice would come out and to hear them skittering around in the blackness was really creepy ".
Every time the Royal Marine Commandos got into the forward platoon positions, the officers, NCOs and conscripts, in general, counterattacked with rifles and cleared them out.
More than 20 Argentinan soldiers emerged from their tents to lay down fire but most of the platoon was still struggling out of its sleeping bags when Lieutenant Ian Bickerdike's No. 4 Platoon was among them, machinegunning and grenading the helpless Argentines.
" Through it all, the platoon was generally loyal to Bilko despite their wariness of his crafty nature, and would depend on him to get them out of any military misfortune or outside mistreatment.
The military brass are shocked, but General Barnicke changes his opinion of the platoon when he finds out that they had to complete training without a drill sergeant.
Although the barrage was mostly accurate, a part fell short at the junction of the 4th and 11th brigades, virtually wiping out one American squad and one platoon of the 43rd battalion.
Skip to circa 1986 when a platoon of soldiers are out on manouevres in the same backwater.
In return the platoon would safeguard the kibbutz and carry out work such as agricultural work.
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