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Besides being football captain and holder of five pass-catching records at the academy, Carpenter was battalion commander and winner of a special award for "inspirational personal courage and leadership in athletics." "Bill," said former Army Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik, "had the mentality for doing the unusual. His kind of leadership was the quiet type-action rather than words. He'd do something himself on the football field and that would inspire the others...
...this country, there is a large group of stateless men who would welcome an opportunity to fight for their country. I refer to convicts-men who have lost their freedom by their own misdeeds. You will recall that Field Marshal Rommel put his criminal elements together in a motorcycle battalion and subsequently awarded them several unit citations. Many of us at Kentucky State Penitentiary are youthful offenders; some, like me, have had military training. We beg for a chance to prove ourselves on the Viet Nam battlefront...
...confident that "we'll be able to cope with anything they can throw, rain or shine," as Major General Stanley ("Swede") Larsen, commander of U.S. and Korean ground forces in the Central Highlands, put it. Though the Reds have not mounted a single offensive operation of more than battalion size since Jan. 1, many officers in Saigon expect them to strike in considerable force some time before summer's end, quite possibly at the narrow waist of South Viet Nam in the Central Highlands area. "They're going to have to make some attempt because they badly...
...base of Zozok Mountain, near the border, plastering hillside, countryside and villages in the neighborhood with machine-gun bullets, rockets and napalm. Kurdish sharpshooters sat out the attacks in caves, surprised army patrols on isolated roads, swooped down one night on the tents of an Iraqi army battalion stationed near the town of Ruwandiz...
...results were bloodcurdling. "The battalion was completely annihilated," announced a rebel communique. "The aggressors failed in all their attacks. Along the Ruwandiz front, there are more than 1,000 bodies left by the Iraqi army. General Barzani has begged the International Red Cross to propose a one-day truce to remove these decomposing bodies, for the health of the civilian population is endangered." Radio Baghdad told it another way. "The Kurdish rebels," it said, "are collapsing. Sixty rebels were killed in the Barzan area, 75 in Khorman, 80 in Korah and 20 in Koti. The insurgents were so exhausted that...