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...Platoon Softball League Pfc. Carl W. Jones pitched Platoon 2 to a one hit victory over Pfc. Stanley W. page's All Stars of Platoon...
...newly organized Intramural League which includes both the Platoon Leagues, the three Houses, Dudley, and the Kirkland and Eliot V-12ers is still in embryonic form. Rainy weather cancelled many of the scheduled games
Into the hot hills of the Desert Training Center (TIME, July 19) slogged a platoon on its six-day endurance maneuver -39 men and a lieutenant. Last week 36 came back, reported three dead, one missing. During the first night out they missed a rendezvous with the water truck. The next day a heat wave swept over the already scorched land, the temperature climbed...
...lieutenant called a halt, ordered the platoon to stay where it was while he went off for water. He was back in a matter of hours with water and help. But while he was away, four men had gone off on their own search for water. Three bodies were found. One is still missing...
...stretching his tiny legs and occasionally breaking into a run, he was able to keep up with the platoon until they arrived at "Topside" to receive their pay. Here he felt slightly out of place, however as he was without the pay chit necessary to obtain funds...