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...Padre's Hour sometimes includes a whole company, but the ideal is the informal (they can smoke if they want), clublike meeting of a platoon, 20-25 men. Chaplains usually start with a 15-minute address on any topic they wish, then hold a 45-minute question-&-answer session. The Hour is apt to be quite as instructive for the padres as for their men. Many chaplains have been joggled by such questions as: "How can you justify the Church's ownership of slum property?" Many have been startled by posers like "Why is God always represented...
...Come on, you mortar men, rise and shine," he says softly, before reveille. The ensuing scramble is pure bedlam, because the last two men of the platoon to answer roll call get the "yardbird" detail. When the Marines sailed for the Solomons, officers debated whether to take ancient Lou Diamond overseas. Lou bellowed orders to his platoon so boisterously that he sounded like all the sergeants in the Corps. He went along...
...second platoon moved forward a land mine accidentally exploded in the face of a young lieutenant. He stopped a second, then crawled on with blood dripping from his chin. (Wounds: painful but minor.) Said he to another file: "Please look out for my rifle, will...
...caliber, semi-automatic carbine which is already in the hands of U.S. troops fighting in North Africa and the Pacific. A killer up to 500 yards, it is supplanting the pistols of company and platoon commanders...
...critics who call Camp White the Alcatraz of training camps, Charlie Gerhardt has an answer: "We are trying to guarantee every man that, by God, when his platoon leader takes him into action, he'll have a chance of getting back alive...