Word: 120th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sent overseas; it would be hard to find more gung-ho outfits anywhere than four Air Guard squadrons mobilized straight into combat in Viet Nam. "Nobody's got a bitch about being here," claims Captain Thomas Risan, an airline pilot now bombing and strafing Viet Cong fortifications with the 120th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Phan Rang. Calling themselves the "Raggedy-Ass Militia of Happy Valley," the 25 pilots and 350 maintenance crewmen of the 120th TFS have racked up more than 1,000 missions since reaching Viet Nam early in May. "What we got was real pros," says a regular...
Boredom prompts men to take pride in goldbricking, inducing added ennui. Even the crack 120th TFS at Phan Rang has an accountant and a graduate in English slinging hash, a school principal pulling security guard, and a Denver assistant district attorney slaving as a clerk in the base legal office...
...120th anniversary, the weekly English-language Chronicle has reason to be proud. By a quarter century, no other Jewish publication has lasted so long. With 60,000 subscribers of all persuasions in 50 countries (there are even two in Thailand), the Chronicle has determinedly maintained its independence of political, communal or financial interests. It is read with respect by Zionists, anti-Zionists, reform, conservative and orthodox Jews -and by the British Foreign Office and the U.S. Department of State. Its headquarters staff of 100 (a third of them non-Jews), 40 British correspondents and 60 overseas stringers not only faithfully...
...know about the fine, brave city of Marshfield, Wis. During the reorganization of the 32nd Division in 1947, I recruited Marshfield's two fine batteries of field artillery for the 120th F.A. Bn., and in just 1½ hours! You made no mistake in your fine report on General Abrams. As a staff officer in the 4th Armored, I saw the devastation he wreaked on German armor with the 37th Tank. Sleep well, America...