Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harry was born in Texas and worked on the Houston Post from 1938 to 1954, with three years out for Army duty in World War II. A combat correspondent with the rank of Staff Sergeant, he covered the campaigns in The Netherlands and Germany with the 84th Infantry Division and won the Bronze Star. He was City Editor of the Post when he joined Time as a correspondent in the Washington bureau 13 years...
...Security Treaty between the U.S. and Japan comes up for renewal in 1970, and although Sato does not anticipate a repetition of 1960's uproar, he cannot afford to give ammunition to the Japanese left by committing his nation to open support of the U.S., let alone a combat role in what most Japanese consider should be an internal Vietnamese...
They are also a bargain: the average cost per defector is $125, v. an estimated $400,000 expended to kill one enemy soldier, and 70% of those coming over so far have been combat soldiers. For all the success of Chieu Hoi, though, it is still far from winning the war. To date there have been only 200 defectors from the North Vietnamese forces, and no matter how many war-weary Viet Cong come over the line, there will be yet more Northerners to replace them. Still, Saigon feels that the defection rate has reached a turning point, expects this...
...every war, disease far outranks combat wounds as a cause of casualties. The situation is no different in Viet Nam, where three out of every four hospitalized U.S. soldiers are sick rather than injured. Despite the fact that American battlefield medicine is the best in history, the illness rate remains high because an Iowa-born sergeant or a Georgia-born lieutenant has developed no immunity to the indigenous diseases of Viet Nam.* Worse still, there are occasional cases of disease that a U.S. trained Army doctor has never seen before...
...added to the medical problems, a U.S.-South Vietnamese report finds that the number of psychiatric cases is "remarkably low for the number of troops involved." Only 1.5% of the U.S. troops have psychiatric complaints; the comparable rate in Korea was 6.6%, World War II 10.1%. Among the reasons: combat fatigue has been drastically reduced by the sporadic nature of the fighting and by the one-year tour of duty. The incidence of psychiatric disability seems to be highest at the beginning and near the end of the tour, says one Navy doctor, who notes that some men become "obsessed...