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The .280 had been tried out before, in 1950 tests at Fort Benning, Ga. by a joint U.S.-Canadian-U.K. board, and failed to carry the day. The U.S. didn't like the lighter-powered bullet or the optical sight. Growled one critic: "Send an infantryman off on...
Omar Bradley's early career as a soldier was no more unusual than his reason for becoming one (West Point was free and he was poor). While some of his classmates ('15) helped to make military history in World War I, Bradley commanded a guard company in the...
World War I: Commanded 17th Machine Gun Battalion 6th Division, on the Meuse-Argonne front. Wounded seven days before the war's end. After the war, served at Fort Benning and the Canal Zone, instructed R.O.T.C. students at University of Florida.
Close to the Barrage. Last week Greece's eight field divisions were engaged in an intensive six weeks' training cycle. Many of the Greek officers had studied U.S. tactics at Fort Benning Infantry School. In all divisions, aggressive young U.S. captains, majors and colonels act as advisers.
Nearly all of the old command teams are back in the U.S. for jobs of first importance: applying battle experience gained in Korea to the training of the expanding Army at home. Major General Hobart Gay, onetime commander of the ist Cavalry Division, is deputy commander of the Fourth Army...