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...initials conveniently stand also for "F- the Army," a slogan familiar to all overseas G.l.s. "Ours is a political vaudeville created out of materials found in G.I. newspapers," says Sutherland. In mid-November the group began a five-week holiday tour with a show near Fort Dix, N.J. From there it went on to play near (never on) bases in Hawaii, the Philippines, Okinawa and finally Japan...
...FORT DIX, N.J., where the Army stockade was a mess last year, Lieut. Colonel Arthur Friedman has launched dramatic reforms in line with his motto, "Firm but fair." To Friedman, a huge 240-pounder, his slogan means clean kitchens, well-trained guards and innovative programs for 446 inmates. Since he took charge 15 months ago, Friedman has started college-preparatory classes, given the inmates a real drug-therapy program complete with talks by ex-addicts, and allowed selected prisoners off-base privileges...
Trillin relates his Army story as humorous counterpoint to his deadpan account of a violent peace demonstration that took place just outside Fort Dix, N.J., on Armed Forces Day 1970. Between the public relations game of a peacetime Army and the pitched battles of war-sick civilians, a decade of change is neatly revealed. Nothing cosmic, only a clear, courteous reminder of how much things have changed...
...provide job training for servicemen before discharge. Because the program is open only to those with six months or more of active duty remaining, it has little appeal. An alternative is almost immediate discharge upon return from Viet Nam. Of the 5,000 overseas returnees arriving at Fort Dix each month, for example, all but a few hundred are discharged within 48 hours. As a result, only 12,000 men enrolled for the program last year...
tions between the right and left RLA members were tremendous, and the meeting exploded as the left demanded immediate action. Led by Karl Hess, over fifty leftist members walked out of the conference and staged a sit-in at Fort Dix, in New Jersey. Rothbard, who with Hess had been a founder of RLA, denounced the move on tactical grounds-and very shortly thereafter, RLA fell apart as a national organization...