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Last Minute Command Saves Navy Platoon from Disaster

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The ancient story about the newly-commissioned officer who marched his men into a brick wall because he had forgotten the command for halt was nearly reenacted in the Yard yesterday.

A Navy platoon was swinging along the roadway past Harvard Hall, headed for their class, but apparently the officer in charge failed to notice a truck parked right in the path of his men. As the student-officers marched resolutely and courageously onward towards the vehicle, the officer noticed the difficulty.

He rushed up from the rear of the group, and shouted out "column right-march" just in the nick of time to save some valuable units of Uncle Sam's Navy.

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