Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your other marks. Ask him what your physical profile is. An "A" profile means you're in fine physical shape, and a "B" doesn't make much difference, especially if you got it because of sight or hearing. But a "C" profile will keep you out of combat. If you pull strings, it may also get you out of your basic training company and into some On-the-Job Training, which is much easier...
...finance. Seventy percent of all officers now go into the infantry: after OCS they spend six months drilling trainees at a basic training camp and then go overseas to Europe or Korea. Only one percent are sent to the Chemical Corps or Transportation or another of the non-combat branches...
...detectives spend more time locked in combat with blondes than with criminals. Dragnet (alt. Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC), long a radio favorite, has become the best of the TV crime shows by tossing overboard all such TV cliches - from incendiary blondes and comic stooges to roaring gunfights and simple-Simon detection. Last week the TV Dragnet came back to the air after a summer vacation in the first of a new series of 47 filmed episodes. The suspenseful story of a man about to jump from an eighth-floor ledge, it was well acted, filmed and directed and undoubtedly Dragnet...
Congress' solution was to "equalize" matters by awarding a $45-monthly combat bonus to all U.S. military personnel not already receiving hazardous-duty pay who spent six or more days a month within range of enemy guns...
...until 1948 did he see combat. When the frontier squabble between the new state of Israel and the Arab League burst into flames, Naguib was against invading Palestine, not out of love for the Israelis (whom he still calls "the enemy on our eastern frontier"), but because he knew what the war would prove: that the Egyptian army was not ready for a desert campaign. "But the army was never consulted," he says with a bitter shrug. Naguib, a brigadier, took charge of a machine-gun and infantry regiment in the Sinai desert. He was the only senior officer...