Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...given to SAC, which has had to assemble crews and drill into them the sciences of inertial guidance, pneumatics, electronics, hydraulics, cryogenics. After hours and hours of such studies, the trainees are sent on to specialized courses on various missiles (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman), then are assigned to combat crews...
...year as a radio and television monologuist and comic chatterer. Suddenly, his radio-TV income dropped to zero. He had been blacklisted as a Communist sympathizer in a pamphlet published by AWARE, Inc., a private group of lawyers, professors, businessmen and actors whose declared objective was "to combat the Communist conspiracy in entertainment communications...
...Boom, by George Mandel. This war story makes a point that others fudge: a soldier in combat is close to insanity...
...loved true honour more than fame," read the inscription under the picture of Robert Gardner in the Nashua, N.H. high school yearbook of 1941. Gardner became a professional soldier, fought under General George Patton in World War II, served in a combat unit in Korea. This spring Staff Sergeant Gardner was sent to South Viet Nam as a military "adviser." It was to be the last overseas assignment of his 20-year hitch; next year he planned to retire and enroll in a Florida umpires' school in hopes of becoming a major-league baseball umpire...
...Boom, by George Mandel. A complex, absorbing narrative about a hard-driven infantry company in combat...