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The U.S. has 72,000 men in South Viet Nam, including a contingent of some 3,900 troops of the historic 1st Infantry Division ("the Big Red One") that landed last week. On the way from Fort Campbell, Ky., was a 4,000-man brigade of the 101st Airborne Division...
Fort Benning, Ga.
Defense Secretary McNamara sounded like a proud father. "I have," he told newsmen, "today authorized the Army to organize a new division, the Air-mobile Division." To be organized at Fort Benning, Ga., the new 16,000-man outfit will be ready for action by mid-August. Said McNamara: "It...
?ARMY. Of the 18,800 Army personnel in Viet Nam, almost all have been picked on the basis of specialized qualifications; organized units have not, as a rule, been sent. The Army presently has 16 active divisions of about 15,000 men each. Of these divisions, five are in Europe...
The mild idiocy of that statement should take nothing away from DonIon, now 30. A tall, sandy-haired man, he enlisted in the Air Force in 1953, was appointed to West Point in 1955. After two years, he decided that the military life was not for him, left to take...