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A few weeks after he took over, the Pentagon decided to convert the 82nd into one of the first two U.S. airborne divisions. To show his men what paratrooping might be like, Ridgway, who had no particular airborne qualifications, hied himself to Fort Benning to make a parachute jump. "It...
Brigadier General Joseph S. Bradley, 50, commander of 25th Division: West Point, 1918; stationed in Philippines and China in 1920's and 1930's; chief of staff, 32nd Division, commander 126th Infantry Regiment in New Guinea, World War II; postwar service in the Pacific and at Fort Benning...
That night, at a big dinner for Erle at Fort Benning, General Marshall pointed another moral. He said that this nation had to have an enduring system of national defense instead of a "feast & famine" military program. While he was Secretary of State in 1947, Marshall recalled, the country had...
The ease with which small, fast-moving enemy units wiggled through U.S. lines in Korea gave the Army an idea. Last week it began doing something about it. In the winter-stubbled fields at Ft. Benning, Ga., a special school had been established to train tough, company-sized commando groups...
"My Head Has Improved." Progress has been uneven. The Korean Republic has taken its longest step toward recovery in the military field; in two years it has trained and equipped a first-rate ground army. Much of the credit goes to the U.S. Army's Korean Military Advisory Group...