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Seniors in the Marine Platoon Leaders Corps program--including first Class Marshall David C. Skinner '51--will be prevented from attending Commencement June 21 unless their recently received orders to report for active duty June 20 are changed...
...know what hit them. Magsaysay's army attacked them steadily all over Luzon. In the Sierra Madre, the troops caught up with the Huk band that had murdered the Hardies, killed 20. The army fell far short of Magsaysay's quota of five Huks to every platoon (it claimed a total of 300 Huks killed last week), but the Huks were beaten back. March 29, the Huk anniversary, proved to be one of the most peaceful days the Philippines had known in years. Even bitter critics of the government agreed that Magsaysay was doing a first-rate...
...platoon system is a chief villain in the mounting competition for football players, Dean Bender suggested. "Any good high school player," he noted, "might have 12 or 50 colleges camping on his doorstep. Scandals are the logical end product...
Into Sixth Army Headquarters at San Francisco's Presidio last week trooped a platoon of dealers in Army surplus goods. They had been summoned by Colonel Paul Steele, supply officer, who was anxious to buy back some of the $15.7 billion worth of the property the Government has sold as surplus (for 27.2? on the dollar) in the U.S. since World War II. Colonel Steele gave them a list of urgent needs: 32,000 field jackets, 100,000 blankets, 37,000 combat boots, etc. By week's end, after spending $600,000, he had filled most...
During the U.S. evacuation of the Hungnam beachhead last year, a key outer defense point was a ridge on the exposed eastern flank. For 30 hours an infantry platoon of the 3rd Division, commanded by ist Lieut. Harry E. Sutton, 30, of The Bronx, beat off enemy attacks, refused to retreat even when part of the U.S. line was overrun. Lieutenant Sutton won the Silver Star for leading a bayonet charge which dug out the enemy and restored the position. Greater honor, perhaps, than the Silver Star was the fact that his fellow soldiers and superior officers referred...