Word: bragg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the Army's 82nd Airborne Division is trained for quick deployment to global hotspots, its base at Fort Bragg, N.C., is 6,500 miles from Tehran. It probably would not be possible to keep secret the dispatching of even a few of its elite units. Said a senior Pentagon official: "You alert the 82nd, and within minutes someone would call his mama to tell her that he was going. Then the news would...
...Susie Bragg Buckhannon...
Last week, camped temporarily in a modest office at Fort Bragg, his desk flanked by a general's flag and a pile of cardboard boxes stuffed with his personal papers, Sam Walker sounded like a soldier suffering from battle fatigue. "I've thought time and time again: What did I ever do wrong...
...telephone plea from Mobutu, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing dispatched 1,200 Foreign Legion paratroopers to Shaba. Belgian Premier Léo Tindemans sent another contingent of paras to help airlift 3,000 Europeans from Kolwezi. Units of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C., were placed on alert, and the White House announced that 18 Air Force C-141 transports, based in West Germany and along the U.S. East Coast, were assisting the French and Belgian operations...
...pensions and won other concessions by trading off such payments against a mandatory retirement age. Now, if people work past 65, actual pension costs will decrease. But salary costs will rise, since older workers are generally the highest paid. More will have to be budgeted for health insurance. John Bragg, president of the Life Insurance Co. of Georgia, speculates that a full pension might well be denied workers until they reached 70. Anyone who wanted to retire before that age would have to leave with less...