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Sergeant William Brown
Brown is an insecure young man who doubts his abilities as a soldier. He is obsessed with the thought of his wife cheating on him while he is at war.
Staff Sergeant Sam Croft
Croft leads the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon of Headquarters Company of the 460th Infantry Regiment and is considered by the men to be "the best platoon sergeant in the Army and the meanest." He is "efficient and strong and usually empty and his main cast of mind was a superior contempt toward nearly all other men. He hated...
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