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...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 to his old job as a producer at WAGA-TV in Atlanta. Boeing, which employed 120 of the reservists at nearby Mc-Chord, has arranged for them...
...powerful northward flow of the Gulf Stream and the offshore westerly winds. He and April Fool had to finish the last 25 miles lashed to the side of a Coast Guard cutter-still setting a record for the smallest craft to sail the Atlantic, but leaving the bearded airman-turned-seaman "a little disappointed...
...also dangerous business. The pilots of the 432nd wryly refer to themselves as "conscientious objectors who like airplanes and photography," but their war is as risky as any other airman's in Viet Nam. Over the past year, the wing has lost the equivalent of a squadron - 20 Phantoms. One crew out of seven can expect to be shot down during its tour of duty, for recon missions, unlike the swift, darting thrusts of fighter-bomber strikes, often require four to five minutes of straight and level cruising at low altitude...
...least two. Marine Captain Charles Robb, 28, has been scheduled all along to ship out to Viet Nam, and his orders now call for him to leave at the end of the month. But Pat Nugent, 24, is a surprise addition to the fighting forces. At his own request, Airman First Class Nugent has been transferred from a Texas Air National Guard unit to the Washington-based 113th Tactical Fighter Wing. He reports for active duty next week and expects to go to Viet...
...that the songs were traditional Vietnamese, though according to South Vietnamese sources, they are Red Chinese in origin.) The camera would pan a lovely pastoral tableau. Then the air-raid sirens would scream, and everyone would scramble for one-man, cement-lined foxholes. One sequence depicted a captured American airman. Inevitably, there were affecting shots of injured children and of surgeons working on the wounded by flashlight, and Narrator Greene would ask plaintively: "How many bombs will it take to destroy the tens of thousands of people who move rivers with their hands?" Four peasant girls worked cheerfully...