To demonstrate how the use of platoons can lead to environmental, safety and congestion improvements.
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Whole platoons of soldiers in camouflage gear are told to run as they head toward the stricken area.
MPs and candidates who have read their Burke and are eager to hand power to the little platoons.
As dot-coms collapsed, Google took over cheap office space, barely used Aeron chairs, dozens of servers and platoons of out-of-work programmers.
They were organized into thirty-seven rifle platoons and sent to the front, where they were distributed as needed to the companies.
But there is still the problem of managing the formation and dispersal of platoons as cars join and leave, notes Dr Hedrick.
Companies could provide services to organize those platoons on highways or to share cars as part of a fleet all while charging hefty fees.
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Platoons might be safer than individual cars and allow roads to be used more efficiently, but they require drivers to give up their autonomy.
Javier Manzano, a Mexican photojournalist based in Kabul, recently accompanied a joint four-day mission of US and Afghan army platoons on the Afghan-Pakistani border.
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Others are preparing to lead Marine rifle platoons that will hunt the enemy in the mountains of Afghanistan and the streets of Iraqi cities.
The Replacement Depots were not prepared to train platoons, only individuals.
To illustrate how a new business model can be used to encourage the use of platoons with benefits to bothlead vehicle operators and to platoon subscribers.
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But truck platoons are not going to appear on public roads any time soon, reckons Karl Hedrick, an engineer at the University of California at Berkeley.
After months or years of travel, and helped by platoons of researchers, he would pile up capsules of history and reportage before arranging them into a book.
Since the 1970s, platoons of researchers, most hired by dealers, have combed the Cremona archives with a dedication and ingenuity that any graduate history department would be proud of.
But the icing on the cake for me is that this one and only decent Occupy idea is a profoundly conservative one, relying as it does on those little platoons.
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They eat in those neighborhoods, in other words food is brought to them, they sleep there, and they do it not as one entire unit at battalion level, they do it as platoons.
Smith couldn't persuade Lee, but he did convince Eisenhower to maintain an essential segregation in ETO: the Supreme Commander declared that Negro volunteers would be trained as platoons and put into the line on that basis.
Corporal Meyer maintained security at a patrol rally point, while other members of his team moved on foot with two platoons of Afghan National Army and border police into the village of Ganjgal for a pre-dawn meeting with village elders.
At the moment, a freeway operating at maximum efficiency is about 5% covered with cars, but driverless cars can be packed together in platoons, with just inches between the bumpers if the lead car has to slow down, it can simultaneously activate the brakes of all the cars behind it.
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Instead, conservatives would argue that education, earned success and the all-important mediating institutions -- families, churches, communities, private and philanthropic enterprises, associations of coaches, teachers, parents, doctors, civil servants and religious and non-religious volunteers, the Boy Scouts and other worthy mentoring groups, all what Edmund Burke called the "little platoons" that make up healthy civil society -- are the pillars of upward mobility.
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