The managing editor will be George H. Lyon, Reginald Marsh is one of the staff artists, & Marga et Bourke White heads the platoon of photographers. Louis Kornenberger will review plays, Elizabeth Hawes will write about fashions.
His patrol, with two Afghan Army platoons, was headed to a meeting in a village called Ganjgal one day before dawn in September, 2009, when they were ambushed.
Cpl Taylor ran to pick up one of the scared boys before heading back with platoon commander Capt James Cook to rescue the others and return them to their mothers.
One dude said "wow," and scratched his head, and the anticipated riots that had a platoon of paramilitary police officers patrolling the area didn't actually happen at all.
His platoon scrambled to its feet and headed toward a row of military barracks behind the headquarters building, where the pop of gunfire still erupted spasmodically.
He added that if the American unit, a platoon of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, had coordinated with him ahead of time, perhaps he could have headed off any hard feelings — perhaps even the shooting itself.
Any car wishing to join a platoon would specify its desired destination, making it possible to identify a nearby platoon heading the right way.
Is it a platoon situation?
It would serve a platoon of Marines.
