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Featuring skits by each platoon, company D held its first in a series of monthly smokers on June 24. The event, which was held in the Hasty Pudding club, unearthed a surprising amount of talent...
...Platoon received the highest rating on spruce quarters from Capt. Bernard A. Merriam, company commander, with the 3d, 2d and 1st trailing in that order...
...Platoon six came forth with an acapella choir to sing some original songs by Richard Roban and cop first place among the eight skits. Competition was so close for the first prize award of being first to chow for a week that the company morale officer, Lieutenant Herbert Fields, who acted as judge, was unable to decide among the offerings of the sixth, fifth, and seventh platoons. A poll of the entire company the following morning, however, decided in favor of the "Singing Sixth...
...early this year. Enthusiastically, the six-foot novillero of the bull ring and artillery lieutenant (V.M.I.-educated, Fort Sill-trained) had started to stump Ecuador in opposition to administration candidates for Congress. Opening at Riobamba, Pepe and cohorts were moving on to Ambato when a platoon of corabineros popped up and arrested them. Given 24 hours to get out of Ecuador, stubborn Pepe balked and a 40-soldier escort literally carried him over the border into Colombia. On March 5 he strode into Quito's central police headquarters, demanded a trial. Instead he was whisked off to the village...
...plane may release a platoon of paratroopers, then circle back to land a little behind the lines and take on 18 to 24 wounded men. Conversion is simple: the evacuation team (a nurse and an enlisted man) fold back the seats and fish up webbing from below the floor boards to support litters. The only other special equipment is a medical supply...