Word: fac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...missiles, the South Vietnamese F-5s and A-37s managed to blow up Luat's command headquarters. Meanwhile, the 23rd Division's forward command post had been destroyed by sapper charges. For a time, the only ARVN communication with the outside world was provided by an FAC spotter plane circling overhead. Trapped in the city were nine Americans, official U.S. Consular Representative Paul A. Struharik and eight missionaries...
...There will be time, there will be time/ To prepare a face to meet the fac es that you meet." So wrote T.S. Eliot in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock...
...rare occasions that ARVN was allowed to "liberate" a Viet Cong hamlet. Nowadays advisers barely even advise. In fact, says Major Jerry G. Williamson, a veteran of three tours in Viet Nam, "these guys don't really need advising. We're mostly out here to talk to FAC [forward air control] pilots and coordinate air strikes...
...FACs-forward air controllers who spot targets from tiny two-engine Cessnas for the fighter-bombers-were also forced to fly dangerously lower. During one four-hour mission, FAC Captain Conrad Pekkola, 32, dodged 15 SAMS as he circled the area between Khe Sanh and the DMZ. "A lot of 23mm. and 37mm. antiaircraft artillery have been moved south since the offensive began," said Pekkola. "Usually they aim at any break in the clouds because they know that's where we'll eventually be." In the first six days of the offensive, the North Vietnamese shot down five...
...acrimonious exchange followed between Pusey and John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics. Galbraith rose during the meeting's question period to ask Pusey if the Corporation had consulted Fac-ulty and students in its decision to reject the proposals of Campaign GM. Galbraith also questioned the qualifications of Treasurer George F. Bennett '33 to make policy decisions in regard to apartheid in South Africa...