Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transferred to the Marines to do his jet flight duty, and wound up, by a felicitous military fluke, as his squadron's chief legal officer. He spent the last 17 months of his Marine hitch prosecuting, defending, judging or investigating military cases. On the side, he apprenticed with a civilian lawyer, a fact that helped him to talk his way into Boston University Law School after his discharge, even though he had not finished college...
...least one union, the American Federation of Government Employees (an AFL-CIO affiliate with 300,000 members), is serious about the notion. Its rationale: since military pay is already linked by law and practice to the salaries of federal civilian employees, the two should combine their muscle to bargain together. The union insists that wartime discipline would not become a matter of union negotiations. Union officials note that countries such as West Germany, The Netherlands and Sweden have unionized soldiers and no break down of discipline has resulted. What's more, as one joke among the Government Employees union...
...open fields some 60 km. south of Silva Porto, Savimbi's troops are training. They are a young, green lot, dressed in ragged, tattered civilian clothing supplemented by an equally tattered assortment of military jackets and pants...
...other hand, he makes all kinds of statements about the Palestinian movement. This is a double standard. If you call on the Palestinians to lay down their guns, then Israel should also renounce force. We did not bring force into this conflict, historically. The Palestinians were a civilian population, unarmed, untrained...
Avowed Sexuality. The Government's chief witness, Journalist Second Class Laurent Crofwell, 28, testified that Berg made a pass at him last year in Italy. Berg denied the charge. While admitting homosexual acts with three civilian males during the past seven years-plus heterosexual activity-Berg denied having sex with anyone in the armed forces, and called for a lie detector test to prove it. Berg does not advocate blanket acceptance of "blatant" homosexuals or bisexuals, but thinks he should be judged solely on his competence as a naval officer and his ability to keep his sex life separate...