Ferris was a Marine who served in the United States and Japan in administrative roles with an engineering battalion during the war.

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Now, like the simultaneous air sorties of the Gulf war, a battalion of seven Bama executives fans out to meet with McDonald's franchisees, regional division heads, and buying cooperatives to discuss new products.

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Fort Bragg's Womack Army Medical Center, he points out, with its Warrior Transition Battalion, for those injured in war, and an advanced traumatic brain injury center, is just 5 miles away.

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During World War II Mr Hartmann worked as a member of the SS Death's Head Guard Battalion at Germany's Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

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We Were Soldiers is a Vietnam War drama that stars Mel Gibson as the commander of an embattled U.S. Army battalion.

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