Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midweek the Pentagon ordered increased training and a standby for 148,000 Army Reservists and National Guardsmen. At week's end the Defense Department announced that 40,000 U.S. troops will move immediately to Western Europe to reinforce the 250,000 men already deployed there in five combat-ready infantry and armored divisions...
Dday. H-hour. A landing craft touched and stopped off Pointe du Hoc between Utah and Omaha beaches. Out jumped a combat unit, including three grizzly-looking soldiers who crossed 150 yds. of pebble beach through a heavy traffic of westbound bullets, fired a grappling hook to the top of a cliff and began to scale it. "We'll never make it," said one of them. "Three old ladies with brooms could keep us off this cliff...
...Best Man. During World War II, O'Brien marked time unhappily as an Army sergeant at Massachusetts' Camp Edwards. His poor eyesight (20/400 vision) redlined him for combat duty. On one ten-day furlough he married Elva Brassard, the daughter of a Springfield house painter. They had courted sporadically for five years-on O'Brien's terms. "It was always going to political rallies, or running over to see what the city council was doing," recalls Elva O'Brien. "That was Larry's idea of a date." Their best man was Foster Furcolo...
...cope with their problems, Estes and Gerrity have tapped some of the Air Force's brightest colonels for the project. In air combat lingo, enemy airplanes are dubbed "bandits"; today at Inglewood, the term applies to unsolved construction problems. Every bandit that appears is handed to one of Estes' colonels. That officer is known as the "it" colonel-and he stays "it" until he finds a solution, which had better not be very long. Says one colonel: "If you're 'it' and you've been 'it' for a few days...
Hardened by such defeats, John Masters was a tough, battlewise lieutenant colonel during the final, crushing campaign against the Japanese. For six hours one day he got the chance to command the crack 19th Indian Infantry Division in combat-"the summit and culmination of my military life . . . The experience itself made me understand even more fully Lee's saying that it is fortunate war is so terrible, otherwise men would love it too much...