Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ground-support missions. After going on several missions with Glenn, Ted Williams, the Red Sox leftfielder recalled to duty as a Marine pilot, declared flatly: "The man is crazy," Says Lieut. Colonel Edward Lovette: "We called Glenn ol' magnet tail because his plane was hit so many times in combat...
...Army's Special Forces. The Special Forcemen are training all of South Viet Nam's Ranger companies, all of the loyalist troops in Laos, and five-man teams of South Vietnamese paratroopers for behind-the-lines raids. One of the Army's toughest combat soldiers, Rosson, at 43, is also its youngest major general, a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oregon, DSC from the Anzio beachhead, and a qualified paratrooper...
...group, the U.S. guerrillas are the best combat troops in the Army. Their badge is their green beret, authorized by the President to set them apart as elite troops. All are volunteers. All are paratroopers. About 40% of the officers and 25% of the enlisted men have had commando-like Ranger training. Officers can speak at least one, and often two, foreign languages. Every enlisted man has one specialty and a grounding in two others, e.g., weapons, demolitions, medical care. The training is intensive: demolition experts can fashion explosives out of fertilizer; medics can amputate limbs and treat any kind...
Because the safety of an entire guerrilla outfit depends on the skill and dependability of each man, the Special Forces operate under a unique system of choosing personnel for combat. After a detachment has been through maneuvers, every member-officer and enlisted man alike-has the right to blackball any other member right out of the unit. Of the 100 men originally picked for a tour of duty in South Viet Nam, only 32 survived the screening and the blackballing. "There's nothing personal about the blackballing," says an officer. "Everyone understands the process. It's just that...
...conference-table combat waged over the past nine months, Joxe consistently maintained a leisurely manner. Unlike many French diplomats, he believes in frankness, is fond of quoting Aristide Briand's axiom: "When circumstances are really important, one must say the same thing to everybody." He refused to give way on the key issues: continued French ownership of Sahara oil and stringent guarantees for Algeria's European minority. The first round of talks broke up last June after only three weeks; a second conference, in July, foundered after only eight days. When the Algerians cried that "the debate...