Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says "most Americans" don't swallow the idea of U.S. "combat support" in Viet Nam? Has any major pollster tapped grass-roots opinion lately...
...South Viet Nam. Cruising above the battlefields in search of the wounded, MEDEVAC's helicopters fly a twelve-hour day, seven days a week, every week of the year. In 18 months of duty in South Viet Nam, burly, green-eyed Major Bloomquist, 32, has flown 750 combat missions, been wounded three times, won 27 citations...
Airmobile combat troops, their artillery and ground vehicles, will be flown into combat by the division's 400 huge LOH, Chinook and Iroquois helicopters. The division will have six twin-engined Grumman OV1 Mohawks with infra-red scanning devices, radar and cameras for reconnaissance duty. One of the division's three brigades will be trained as paratroops...
...Spain during the Civil War, Kaltenborn broadcast the first live radio coverage of combat; once, he installed himself in a haystack on the battlefield so that listeners could hear the crackle of gunfire. For 20 days during the Munich crisis in 1938, he scarcely budged from his CBS studio in New York, where he subsisted on onion soup and slept on a cot. He provided running translations of the speeches of Hitler and Mussolini as they came over short wave and analyzed them on the spot. He saw the significance of Munich and warned his audiences accordingly: "Hitler always says...
Coldly Clinical. Faas has seen more combat than any other foreigner in Viet Nam. He has an uncanny instinct for finding out where the action is and getting there fast. His intelligence network, say admirers, can be second only to that of the Viet Cong. He works so hard that he is miles ahead of the competition. He is coldly clinical about his grisly work, but then he has to be. "Otherwise," says a reporter, "with what he sees every day, he'd go right out of his mind...