Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam!" they cry, ignoring the how and when. No matter that power and politics are vital necessities in a troubled world. As they see it, the U.S. is evil if it uses violence-even to combat violence. Dropouts from the body politic-to say nothing of reality-they have been beguiled by constant reminders of their freedom to protest. The right to dissent is subtly reworked until any dissent becomes right. And any criticism of that dissent is exaggerated into a wrongheaded, repressive attack...
...that they, and not the U.S. Marines, were to share the fate of the French, several fierce battles were fought up and down hills so worthless that they had only numbers (representing elevation in meters above sea level), not names. In a Korea-like seesaw of hand-to-hand combat, two battalions of Marines took 1,000 casualties: nearly 200 dead and 800 wounded. The cost to Hanoi was 1,200 dead and countless wounded among the North's freshest, best-trained troops...
...present field force. So well served is the U.S. fighting man in the Viet Nam war that helicopter-supplied units can bring him two hot meals a day out in the field. Many a soldier or Marine is able to sit down in the jungle minutes before going into combat and eat shrimp cocktail packed...
...shared by many front-line cops. Says Los Angeles Chief Tom Reddin: "Until such time as every criminal signs in blood that he will not use lethal weapons against my officers, I will not substitute for their firearms. I don't want the psychological advantage in a combat situation to be on the other side." Even so, Reddin agrees that "where the officer's life is not in danger, a weapon that could be accurate, and would incapacitate, would be a valuable...
Died. Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, 87, pioneer U.S. military aviator, who soloed in 1910 in a Wright Brothers plane ("It was my first takeoff, first landing and first crack-up"), was the first to fly combat against Pancho Villa along the Mexican border in 1916, first to fly more than 100 miles nonstop, first to operate a radio in flight, first to command the fledgling U.S. Air Service First Army in World War I and, before retiring in 1935, the man who selected the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress to fill U.S. needs for a long-range bomber...