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...said Cadet Aguirre, saluting. Mess call sounded, and Cadet Aguirre marched with his platoon into the dining room. Other cadets gazed round-eyed over their beef stew and cocoa at a classmate whose father had actually died in the profession for which they were training...
...Seen separately, the most potent Representatives form as well differentiated a platoon as one might hand-pick from the citizenry...
From Fort Eustis, Va., to Fort Story, near Norfolk, Va., an armament train carried the 52nd Railway Artillery Regiment with 8-inch rifles, 12-inch mortars, ammunition cars. A battalion of the 12th Coast Artillery also mobilized at Fort Story together with submarine minelayers, a searchlight platoon, an ordnance company and weather men. Great 16-inch coast guns were unlimbered in their seaside pits and tilted at the far horizon. Then, as the attacking "fleet" steamed near in the defenders' fancy, shore guns of all sizes roared, bombs burst in midsea, aircraft towered and circled to observe and report...
Next morning, at 1 a. m., a band of about 300 Liberal soldiers, not yet disarmed, offered resistance in the hamlet of La Paz Centro to a platoon of U. S. marines commanded by Capt. Richard Bell Buchanan. For two hours and a half the engagement continued. Captain Buchanan fell, wounded in the chest and arms, and died some hours later. Fourteen Nicaraguans were killed. The rest scattered, but not until Private Marvin Andrew Jackson, U. S. M. C., had been instantly killed by a shot through the brain...
...open order of drill of which it had but a slight taste recently in Guantanamo and of acquainting Naval Science students in the University with a first hand knowledge of the tactics and manocuvres of the landing force of a battleship. Intantry companies, an artillery company and a machine platoon quickly took their places awaiting the signal for firing. A Red Cross detail was stationed to one side of No Man's Land and the Communication and Radio Details worked like lightning to spread their networks over the field. From the baseball stands a band blared patrlotic anthems...