Word: 151st
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moonlighting on Patrol. Another reasonably satisfied-if weary-outfit is the 151st Long Range Patrol Group of Indiana Naional Guard paratrooper volunteers. Called up in May, they have since been hiking through the Georgia pinewoods around Fort Benning's ranger school. "We start with physical training at 5;30 in the morning, and we patrol most of the day," details Captain Kenneth Himsel, 30, an insurance executive. "We're not in the army to moonlight...
...jobs are, however, permitted. Although it can mean 16-hour work- days, moonlighting reservists are commonplace, as civilians struggle to adjust their incomes to military pay scales. "I took a pay cut of $300 per month," says Specialist Four David Waters, a steel-company billing clerk now with the 151st. "Did it hurt? You better believe it." For some reservists, call-up has knocked up to $10,000 off their annual earnings. Weekdays at 5 p.m., Airman First Class Mike Fields quits the 445th Military Airlift Wing's administrative offices at Dobbins Air Force Base outside Marietta, Ga., and drives...