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...case of Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, the Green Beret doctor whose wife and two daughters were brutally murdered in their home at Fort Bragg, N.C., in 1970, has led a succession of investigators on a shocking voyage of discovery. MacDonald claimed (and still does) that a band of drug-crazed hippies committed the carnage. But Army investigators found holes in his story and soon began to suspect MacDonald. When charges against MacDonald were dropped because of insufficient evidence, his father-in-law led a crusade to find the murderers. After examining the evidence, he, too, became convinced that...
...Army handed out 8612 medals to reward individual performance. This notwithstanding the fact that the Army only sent about 7000 officers and men on the three-week jaunt. To play "get a medal," the Army showered prizes on planners in the Pentagon, staff and support troops at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, home of the 82nd Airborne Division, and Army Rangers at Fort Stewart in Georgia and Fort Lewis in Washington state. The brass at the Army's Forces Command in Atlanta also figured in for some silver "attaboys" and other treats...
...were a number of chairbound bureaucrats who got no closer to the fighting than an office in the Pentagon. While there were 275 decorations for valor, wounds or combat deaths, the Army also honored some troops who remained in the safe environs of Army bases like Fort Bragg, N.C., waiting to be called. Defending the awards, which the other services handed out more conservatively, against charges of "medal inflation," Army Spokesman Major Robert Mirelson argues, "Within the military, we do not get bonuses or extra vacation time for a job well done. For us, a medal is basically...
...About 160 U.S. Army troops, including more than 100 members of the 7th Special Forces Group from Fort Bragg, N.C., are stationed at a military regional training center near the city of Trujillo on Honduras' northern coast. Last week the Green Berets were putting 600 Honduran corporals through their paces and getting ready to start a tough, twelve-week program for 1,000 members of El Salvador's newly created Bracamonte Battalion...
...teams of Green Berets sent down from Fort Bragg, N.C., are working to change all that. By the end of the month they will have completed their second six-week course and finished training some 80 men from each of the six islands in skills like map reading, conducting basic field operations and using the new U.S. weapons. Most of the graduates will become part of the Caribbean Peace-keeping Force, which could eventually replace the 300 U.S. troops still serving in Grenada...