Word: combats
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Bare Skeletons. In the continental U.S., the Army last week had 800,000 ground troops, the Marines 180,000. Only about 125,000 of the total are combat ready and capable of being deployed within or without the country on short notices for crisis duty. Key units include two brigades (8,500 men) of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division (which helped quell the Detroit riots last summer) stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., and three outfits committed to NATO exigencies: the 1st and 2nd Armored Divisions (14,500 men each) at Fort Hood, Texas, and the 5th Mechanized Infantry...
...Army is building a new infantry division, the 6th, at Fort Campbell, Ky., but its 14,000 men will not be combat ready until September. The rest of the Army's men in the U.S. are in schools or in training-many of them, ultimately, headed for Viet Nam as replacements or as part of the 18,000 more men assigned to meet the President's earlier commitment of 525,000 troops (currently only...
...Marine Corps is already extended to the leathernecked limit. In the U.S. the Marines have their 2nd Division (20,000 men), at Camp Lejeune, N.C., in combat readiness-an Atlantic reserve that must maintain seagoing battalion-landing teams with the Navy's Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, and for the Caribbean. Combat ready on the West Coast, the 28th Marine Regiment (about 5,000 men) is rattling around in California's Camp Pendleton, a bare skeleton force whose departure would empty the West of Marines...
...that it, in effect, practically turns an ordinary rifleman into a machine gunner. Some firearm experts consider it superior to the U.S. M16, which fires a smaller bullet and has an unfortunate tendency to jam. Though the AK-47 is heavier and heats up faster than the M16, U.S. combat troopers sometimes pay it the ultimate compliment by picking it up and using it themselves when they find one on a battlefield...
...recent years world-wide attention has focused on the unofficial East-West struggle for Olympic metal. It is right that a nation should glory in its individual citizens' athletic achievements. But it is wrong that the nations should use the athletes themselves as tools in the continuing ideological combat. The Games should be, as they were for the Greeks, a period of respite from the depression and the terror of strife. The Olympics must be preserved as a major testing ground for international harmony, not as a minor battleground in international conflict