Word: cadet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Originally, the three were five, all Czechs: two brothers, Ctirad and Josef Masin, in their early 20s; a friend, Milan Baumer, 22, a military cadet; Zbynek Janata, 30, a factory executive; and Vaclav Svejda, 30, a disappropriated landowner. Armed with one revolver of about .35 caliber, two smaller automatics and 52 cartridges-arms hidden since World War II-the group formed up in Prague. Early in October they crossed the Czech-East German frontier at night. They were almost due south of Berlin and some 130 air miles away...
West Point's entrance exams are still months away but many a would-be cadet is already worrying about how he should prepare. Last week the worriers could get some help from a book called How to Pass Annapolis and West Point Entrance Exams (Arco; $3.50). Judging by the book's sample questions, candidates would find that the Point expects from every man quite...
With all that in mind, says Arco, any future cadet should have no trouble at all translating the following...
Fourteen senior members of the Harvard Army ROTC unit received Distinguished Military Student decorations yesterday in a ceremony at Andover Field. President Pusey made the awards. At right, Pusey is shown with Lt. Col. Trever N. Dupuy, professor of Military Science and Tactics, Cadet Joshna Levin '54, and Capt. Roy G. Simpkins...
...years since its cadets helped ring the curtain up on the Civil War by firing on the Union steamship Star of the West on her way to relieve Fort Sumter, the Military College of South Carolina (the Citadel) has had much to remember. It has turned out generals by the dozen (among them: Lieut. General James T. Moore, Major General Harry K. Pickett, Major General James B. Allison). Major Thomas D. Howie ("See you in St. Lô") went to the Citadel, and so did Korean Ace Captain Dolphin Overton. At the Citadel, a plebe is still a Doowillie, Dumbrod...