Word: combats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a four-year stint in the Air Force (where he learned to play the guitar to combat boredom), he headed for Memphis, where he met two auto mechanics who were also pretty good musicians. With Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant, he formed a trio-"Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two"-and began the round of playing free-for-alls at church socials, schools, county fairs and charity bazaars. "Finally somebody got the bright idea of auditioning," Cash recalls. The trio trooped off to Sun Records in Nashville and sang a little ditty of Johnny's called...
...wars. Army Field Manual 16-5 makes it clear that the Army sees the chaplain's role as a military support mission: to "supplement and reinforce the total instruction of the troops in the Code of Conduct by his spiritual and moral leadership and his personal presence during combat and combat training." And as an officer, the chaplain is legally obliged to defend national policy...
...once landed near a Viet Cong village with a platoon of green soldiers commanded by an equally green lieutenant. When they froze, Autry rallied them and led the charge. Autry carries a weapon only because he has to. Like many chaplains who go on patrols or fly on combat sorties with airborne troops, he has discovered that his unarmed presence can make the men jittery...
...since the infamous Tet offensive of 1968. From U.S. military bases to provincial cities to the psychological payoff target of Saigon, rocket shells and terrorist bombs exploded with deadly frequency. They were followed, especially at U.S. outposts and forward bases, by ground assaults that forced many units into close combat. As a result, the American death toll for each of the past two weeks rose above 300 for the first time in nearly two months -which is precisely where headline-conscious Communist strategists would like to keep...
...Winston Churchill journeyed to the small Missouri town of Fulton to accept an honorary degree from little-known Westminster College. His acceptance speech made Fulton a historic site. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic," Churchill said, "an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." To combat the forces that lurked behind it, he proposed a "fraternal association" between the U.S. and Great Britain...