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...used to equip six battalions of Khmer Krom mercenaries (ethnic Cambodians from Viet Nam), provide much-needed radio communications, buy 40 military trucks and trailers, and send about 10,000 Cambodian troops to Thailand and South Viet Nam for military training. Says Jonathan (Fred) Ladd, 49, a former Green Beret colonel who was called out of retirement to oversee arms aid: "It's a very modest program, primarily for maintaining a defensive capability...
...most notorious recent court-martials: the trial of the "Presidio 27." who staged a peaceful protest in a west coast military stockade to protest inhumane prison conditions: and the court-martial of Captain Howard Levy, the Army doctor who was sent to prison for refusing to train Green Beret medical corpsmen...
...Levy's case, for instance, defense attorneys made it quite clear that Levy's commander ordered him to train Green Beret aidmen only after he learned Levy had said he would refuse to work with them, and before Levy's base had any formal program for training Berets. A formal program was hastily concocted in the middle of the court-martial, the day before one of Levy's fellow physicians was scheduled to testify...
...watched Red Beret being led past the crowd at the paddock. His eyes looked sad. The identifier checked the tattoo on his lips, and he joined the other horses...
...Come on Red Beret. Come...