Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your vivid, poignant report on the call-up of Wisconsin's Red Arrow Division exemplifies not only the high morale and combat readiness of National Guardsmen, but also the understanding and courage of their wives and families, who bear the real sacrifices. We hope the article is read by those few individuals, including some Guardsmen, who do not yet recognize either the urgency of our mobilization or the traditional duty of our citizens to respond, whatever the cost, when they are needed...
...Airborne!" The next day the President took advantage of a long-scheduled speaking trip to the University of North Carolina (see EDUCATION) to see an Army division at close hand. The division was the lean, tough, combat-ready 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg. For Kennedy, the excursion into the field was his first as Commander in Chief, and he enjoyed it thoroughly. Kennedy rode slowly past the massed units of the 10,268-man division. When the inspection was done, Kennedy praised the 82nd for doing "in peacetime what other men do in war, and that is, live hazardously...
Before leaving Fort Bragg, President Kennedy visited 300 men of the 82nd who had not participated in the performance; they had been on combat alert. One paratrooper startled the President by shouting in his face: "Airborne, all the way!" Replied the President of the U.S., with every reason to mean what he said: "That's the spirit...
...Diem can retaliate. Washington expects at any time a Communist announcement that the western plateau of South Viet Nam, next to the Laos border, is "liberated territory," complete with a "capital'' and a Communist government. Should it happen, Washington suggested last week, the U.S. will dispatch regimental combat teams to help train the South Viet Nam regulars and, if necessary, to fight...
...colonel's billet at U.S. European Army headquarters in Heidelberg. But last week came word of his release from Pentagon purgatory and reassignment to Hawaii, where he will become assistant chief of staff for training and operations in the Pacific-a prestigious post indicating that the combat-proved Texan still had a shot at a third star...