It sounds bad: A platoon sergeant from another company in their battalion was shot in the thigh and abdomen.
The stars and cinematographers are with a unit that calls itself the Bad Voodoo Platoon, and they recorded their deployment last year as part of the much-discussed troop surge.
Mr. Chan has been forbidden by his father to indulge in a style of martial arts known as "drunken boxing," meaning he carefully drinks just enough alcohol to make himself limber but not so much as to make himself awkward, and then can bob and weave, somewhat comically, through a whole platoon of bad guys.
He excoriated the tendency of the Army — and the news media — to blame such crimes on "a few bad apples" or a "rogue platoon".
Again, he said he would think, "My life is over". A few days after he reached Walter Reed, he got more bad news: Eight men from his platoon had been killed by a car bomb in Baghdad.
But Suicide Squad has an entire platoon of cackling, charismatic bad guys to play with, from Will Smith's Deadshot to Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's Killer Croc and Cara Delevingne's Enchantress, each of whom will arrive fresh in the minds of all but the most devoted of comic book fans.
According to Koenig's research, while Bergdahl felt that his platoon's leadership was dangerously bad, many of his platoon mates actually liked the army brass.
It sounds like a platoon of ninja bumblebees with a bad mobile signal have left you a 45-minute answerphone message.
Jodie Foster directs George Clooney and Julia Roberts, and the premise is kind of intriguing: 'Financial TV personality Lee Gates, who offers up stock advice on his hit show "Money Monster," is held hostage by a viewer, Kyle Budwell, who lost all of his money following a bad tip from Lee during his show.' Platoon director Oliver Stone takes on a very important and timely story.
Mr. Bederow said on Tuesday that Mr. Jerome had left the Marines because he reported "very, very bad" hazing that involved cover-ups of brutal beatings as the platoon was being prepared for deployment to Iraq.
