I obviously did well on them because I was named a first platoon leader.
Late in the afternoon, a third platoon, 11 Platoon, under the command of Sergeant (later Lieutenant) Tom Derrick, attempted another attack from further to the right of the position but it too was checked by machine-gun fire and lobbed grenades.
In an instant, Second Platoon's mission had changed.
At one level, Junger's book is a chronicle of Second Platoon's days.
RESTREPO The war in Afghanistan as experienced by the members of the Second Platoon, Battle Company as they fight to maintain a 15-man outpost.
Junger also wrote a book about the Second Platoon's tour called "War".
Last week, as the company's Second Platoon returned from a patrol, a rock slammed into the ballistic glass beside the head of the platoon's forward observer, Pfc.
Second Platoon took a position to the west, to block Route 605, a main road.
Actually, it was much of Battle Company of the 173d Airborne Brigade, which was spread across the mountains — First Platoon around Honcho Hill, watching over Second Platoon in a village below called Landigal.
Relieved at not having to enter My Lai 1, the second platoon began a rather aimless and halfhearted movement through huts and hamlets to the south, across the water from My Khe 4 and the first platoon.
