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...final regimental review yesterday afternoon guidon streamers were presented to the color company the 6th and the first platoon of the 5th Company, the prize platoon. The review, which included a battle exhibition by the 18th section, was taken by Commander Macgowan, officer in charge of the school...
...Navy platoon was swinging along the roadway past Harvard Hall, headed for their class, but apparently the officer in charge failed to notice a truck parked right in the path of his men. As the student-officers marched resolutely and courageously onward towards the vehicle, the officer noticed the difficulty...
...guns will be kept at the armory in Memorial Hall, where battallion units will secure them and return them before and after every drill. Exempt from carrying the rifles are platoon, company, and battalion officers as well as members of the regimental staff...
...medication. There is also griping-an extremely important morale builder, says Private Hargrove. Typical soldier's gripe: "Our battery has the worst food in the Army. We've got the worst sergeant in the battery. No kidding, though, our platoon makes all the others look crummy." Private Bushemi, photographer, hazes a mess sergeant: "You know the one thing that's missing from this meal-the one thing that would make it perfect?" "Ice cream?" asks the sergeant. "Chloroform," says Bushemi...
...sound of martial music filled the Yard yesterday evening as 30 members of the University Band marched in with platoon formation and a lusty one, two, three, four, to serenade the members of the Naval School...