Platoon
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Search complete. 7 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Platoon".
Oct 4, 2026
AsherHOST
Yeah
Jesse QueckGUEST
... and Platoon, I'm like, "Oh, yeah.
Jesse QueckGUEST
I mean, I could do that shit."
AsherHOST
Yeah.
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Jesse QueckGUEST
Um, you know, reinforcements are here.
Jesse QueckGUEST
It's, it's, it's going our way now.
Jesse QueckGUEST
Um, so yeah, he comes up, I think it was the platoon sergeant from First Platoon, Sergeant Stockard.
Jesse QueckGUEST
I remember Lieutenant Thurman was up there for a second.
Maurine ProctorHOST
They continued marching until they reached the western horizon.
Maurine ProctorHOST
They moved in platoons.
Maurine ProctorHOST
and walked so close that their rear ranks trod in the steps of their file leaders, until the whole bow was literally crowded with soldiers.
Maurine ProctorHOST
We could distinctly see the muskets, bayonets, and knapsacks of the men, who wore caps and feathers like those used by the American soldiers in the last war with Britain, and also saw their officers with their swords and equipage and the clashing and jingling of their implements of war, and could discover the forms and features of the men.
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SUBJECT MATTER CONCERNED THE SEVEN RECON TEAMS STILL ENSCONCED AROUND THE RIM OF THE HYEPTOK VALLEY, GATHERING INTELLIGENCE AND PROVIDING SIGHTINGS TO THE PENDING SECOND PHASE OF OPERATION KANSAS.
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THE COLONEL WAS ESPECIALLY CONCERNED WITH THE STATUS OF FIRST PLATOON CHARLIE COMPANY.
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HOWARD'S PLATOON HAD BEEN INSERTED THE DEEPEST AND HAD REPORTED THE MOST ENEMY ACTIVITY.
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A Special Forces CIDG unit spotted large enemy concentrations moving toward Hill 488 shortly after nightfall.
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Artillery barrages failed to disperse them.
Chuck PfarrerGUEST
They weren't trained in anything approaching counterinsurgency or asymmetrical combat against a fanatical, and let's hand it to them, you know, a very well-motivated and combat-effective North Vietnamese army and also Viet Cong irregulars, right? So the army had to sort of reconceive itself And it had the benefit of having good bones, even if the peripheries became less effective.
Chuck PfarrerGUEST
And I almost said diseased, right? So you flash back to Oliver Stone's Platoon, which is not a documentary, folks.
Chuck PfarrerGUEST
It's Oliver Stone's remembrances of Vietnam.
Chuck PfarrerGUEST
But you got guys smoking heroin out of a 12-gauge shotgun.
Milford H. Beagle Jr.GUEST
So I go to him and I said, why don't you like me? And he said, sir, I don't have to like you to work for you.
Milford H. Beagle Jr.GUEST
My job is to make sure you lead the Splatoon to the best of your ability, even if it means telling you what you don't want to hear.
Milford H. Beagle Jr.GUEST
That's where that got planted in my head, that conversation.
Milford H. Beagle Jr.GUEST
And I'm like, oh, that makes so much sense.