Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more battalions of U.S. combat troops, totaling 8,000 men, were being sent to South Viet Nam last week. To go with them were 13,000 support troops, all part of the buildup that will soon bring U.S. forces in South Viet Nam to 75,000-more than triple the number there just six months...
Barry Goldwater, speaking to a convention of Young Republicans in Miami, said that increasing the number of U.S. troops involved in ground combat was not "an effective addition to the war." Michigan's Governor George Romney, in Nashville for a commencement address, told reporters: "The President is taking a direct course in military action in Viet Nam. I think that is an unwise action from so great a distance...
...they have good leadership, South Vietnamese soldiers are often too tired to fight. Many of them have been on line ten or 20 years without respite. As one retired army general put it: "It's impossible to understand the kind of fatigue a man feels after that much combat. It gets down deep into your bones and leaves you with no real hope." A side effect of that despair cropped up after the U.S. began its strikes to the North in February. Army desertions rose to more than 5,000 and paramilitary absenteeism jumped four times that high...
...despite the grim headlines about Quangngai and Dongxoai, the Reds have yet to capture and hold a district or provincial capital for more than a few hours. What South Viet Nam's fighting men need is relief, however momentary, to shed the fatigue and despair of too much combat. Only the U.S. and its allies can provide that respite. When they do, the leadership and combativeness exemplified by Corporal Tu and Laughing Larry Luong, Major Cuong and Lieut. Commander Chau, may well exert themselves in every service...
...formally decided to develop one. Lockheed showed its experimental XH-51 helicopter, the fastest (270 m.p.h.) in the free world, and a Lockheed C-141 StarLifter, the largest craft at the show, flew across the Atlantic with an inflatable Army field hospital. The Defense Department showed off combat aircraft that ranged from McDonnell's supersonic Phantom F-4Bs to a 20-year-old F-51 Mustang fighter, and a 96-ft. Atlas missile towered over the sprawling 85-acre exhibition...