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The enemy was routed and the detachment's casualties include comrades Donda and Jackson Simelane.
CONTENTS 2007
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I certainly think there is fault to be found, but I don't think it's the detachment's.
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The enemy was routed and the detachment's casualties include comrades Donda and Jackson Simelane.
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As described in the May 10, 1866 issue of the St. Cloud Democrat, it didn't take long for the recovery crew--which included Fields's father--to piece together the doomed detachment's final episode of suffering: "Within sight of timber where they knew was shelter, and possibly friends, they fell exhausted, frozen, into the cold embrace of death," the newspaper reported.
Winter: Cruel & Unusual Trish Short Lewis 2006
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Since there is seldom time to issue orders during an ambush, leaders plan the security detachment's actions, which should be rehearsed by drills before movement.
FM 7-98 Chptr 2 - Support For Insurgency and Cntrinsrgncy United States Army 1992
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We are going to ask for more discipline and make more demands from the detachment's medical students.
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And that demand, that discipline and that performance must be given at the level of the selection made and at the level of the detachment's prestige.
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In 1999, one of the cadets, Stephen Mathews, was rebuilding the detachment's website honoring our POW/MIAs and the former POW their detachment is named after, Col. George Hall.
Hall, George R. 1977
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You, who are graduating here, are for us the pioneers of this detachment, the first, the ones who began the experiment, those who demonstrated that the solution was correct, for in these 3 years, truthfully, I have not heard anyone complain of the quality of the detachment's comrades.
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Sure enough, Rhoodie was right; no Confederate officers had broken cover -- he wondered if any of the detachment's officers were still alive -- and no other first sergeants.
The Guns Of The South Turtledove, Harry 1960
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