Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full-fledged battle instead of Arlene Francis and her pots and pans. Called "Operation Threshold," the program was telecast from Maryland's Fort Meade, and was aimed at showing how headquarters could watch its units on TV as they charged up an enemy-held hill. If perfected, combat TV could conceivably eliminate noncoms and junior officers, and foot soldiers would get their orders-and criticisms-direct from the commanding general seated before a TV set in a well sandbagged dugout...
...beginning of a new era: "Just as the introduction of gunpowder . . . revolutionized the weapons of ground warfare, television will inject an entirely new concept into military communications." Also on hand was Brigadier General (ret.) David Sarnoff, whose Radio Corporation of America had collaborated with the Signal Corps in developing combat TV. Sarnoff also saw "a new era in tactical communications . . . which will enable a commander to keep a watchful eye on every section of the battlefield." General Matthew B. Ridgway, Chief of Staff, seemed a little less certain that the millennium was at hand. He observed that the Army...
...life at Vicksburg, on his knees with a grapefruit knife in his hand, digging out the first scale models of American rivers. He recalls that many top engineers ridiculed the project, and Vogel for "making mud pies," but the Vicksburg scale models now allow the engineers to predict and combat great river floods with amazing accuracy. Vogel later served as district Army engineer in Pittsburgh and Buffalo, and lieutenant governor of the Panama Canal Zone. During World War II, he won the Legion of Merit for home-front engineering projects and the Distinguished Service Medal for service in the Pacific...
Elements of the regular army, increasingly resentful of the Liberation Army, quickly seized on the mortification of the cadets as an excuse to rise against the Castillo Armas junta. Two days of swaying, shifting combat caused almost as much bloodshed (29 killed, 91 wounded) as the original revolution. But when it was over, President Castillo Armas seemed to emerge more decisively in command than ever...
...Force levels will be stabilized at 3,070,000 men, with the Army getting 1,200,000, the Air Force 970,000, the Navy 685,000 and the Marine Corps 215,000. The Army will have about 17 divisions and 18 regimental combat teams, the Navy some 400 combatant ships, the Air Force 137 wings, and the Marine Corps three divisions, three air wings...