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Here are some of the things that Soutter pointed out to me: You jump with an emergency parachute on your chest which you deploy in case of a malfunction in the main canopy. On your first five jumps, in accordance with Parachute Club of America regulations, you use a static line, which means that your rip cord is pulled for you as soon as you leave the plane...
...Force, which can operate out of some 250 worldwide bases, one of the biggest problems is how best to deploy its forces in an emergency. Sudden situations-such as last week's Congo airlift, in which U.S. planes played a significant role-call for quick responses. Last week the Air Force took a step toward more effective emergency responses to even bigger crises. It announced a $40 million contract for an automatic global communications-computer system that will keep constant tab on its men, missiles and planes, tell how best to use them...
After that, the Chinese were forced to deploy their own men. In May, near Shekar Dzong in southern Tibet, Chinese forces engaged 6,000 guerrillas in battle. Though the guerrillas lost 800 casualties, it took 15 heavy trucks to cart away the Chinese dead-and the Chinese wounded overflowed hospitals all the way back to the town of Shigatse, 120 miles to the northeast...
...braced for post-summit Communist boldness in secret strategy sessions, laid the groundwork for the SEATO foreign ministers' meeting to be opened this week by Vice President Nixon. While SEATO strategists were discussing the Red Chinese menace, the U.S. Air Force announced that it was getting ready to deploy a striking force of 120 supersonic jet fighters and other aircraft on maneuvers in Thailand, Formosa and the Philippines. Operation "Mobile Yoke," said the Air Force, was planned six months ago, just happened to be announced in a week when Communist artillery started firing...
...eventual reduction of the U.S.'s 650,000-man forces overseas. "It is possible over a period of time that other NATO countries will increase their contributions of strength, and that they may come to the conclusion that it might be to their own advantage that we deploy forces elsewhere." But such a decision, McElroy indicated happily, would fall in some future budget maker's lap. On his return to Washington, he announced another economy: the second nuclear carrier (forced on the Navy by Congress) would be conventionally powered at a saving of $100 million...