Word: 1st
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEMILITARIZED ZONE: Far to the North, near the 17th parallel, there is concern as well. By Dec. 15, the 18,500 men of the U.S. 3rd Marine Division will have been withdrawn, leaving the gap to be filled by ARVN's 1st Division. The U.S. Commander in Viet Nam, General Creighton Abrams, calls the 1st the equal of any American division in the country. In line with its slogan, "More sweat in training, less blood in combat," it gives each trooper an extra five weeks of special training, and its combat record is excellent. Though it is twice...
...that, the black soldier in the bush still helps his white comrade and wants his help as well. At Phuoc Vmh, a black 1st Cavalry trooper recently dragged a wounded white from a rocketed hootch when no other black or white dared to venture in. A black Navy medic who had been in Viet Nam only two weeks fell on a grenade near Danang to save a white Marine and lost his own life. When black Lieut. Archie Bigger was three times wounded capturing enemy artillery pieces, eleven whites held, him aloft above the suffocating napalm smoke until a rescue...
Tennis Tournament MEN'S Singles 1st place-- Ronald Demos Lee ($15,00) Runner-up-- Robert J. Domrese ($ 8.50) WOMEN'S Singles 1st. place-- Kathy Ellis ($10,00) Runner-up-- Virgina Sellman Ridgely ($ 5.00) MEN'S Doubles Winner-- ($ 10.00 each) Irving Epstein and Robert Inman WOMEN'S Doubles Winner-- ($ 5.00 each) Susan Carol Schneider and Kathy Ellis MIXED Doubles Winner-- ($10.00 each...
Army field hospital, Nixon choppered twelve miles north to Di An, a 1st Infantry Division base camp. The security precautions were overwhelming: all of the Vietnamese base personnel were sent home four hours before Nixon arrived, and swarms of helicopter gunships buzzed warily overhead. Said one helicopter crewman: "If a stray dog had moved, he wouldn't have had a chance." The President bantered with some of the men about home towns and ball teams; he invited a soldier from San Clemente, Calif., to come for a swim at the new Nixon summer White House there. "Tell the Secret...
...individual fighting men, like soldiers in all wars, are relatively unconcerned with the big picture. In the 9th Division, which will part with its 1st and 2nd Brigades, and in the 3rd Marines, which will detach its 9th regimental landing team, some men began packing their bags. Many were already nearing the end of their tour; others still had several months to serve. Fighting in a war of attrition, in which kill ratios are more important than territorial objectives, they have come to believe that their one-year tour of duty is something to be endured. For most, personal survival...