Word: forcemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Academy. Air Forcemen are deeply worried about the Kennedy Administration defense policy; they fear, with considerable cause, that Defense Secretary McNamara is phasing out the manned bomber. But Kennedy told the cadets that more than ever before, their futures will be "changing and challenging." Then he announced an Administration decision to spend federal millions to develop a supersonic commercial-transport aircraft (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...version (the RS-70), but so far the Administration has refused to spend much of the money. With Skybolt -which could presumably slice effectively through antiaircraft defenses-the Air Force expected to keep its B-52 force useful through the 1970s. But with Skybolt a stillborn bird, many Air Forcemen look gloomily toward the day when the manned bomber will be dead as a dodo...
...McNamara's side, to and from Hawaii, was Major General William B. Rosson, recently named as boss of the sort of "individual soldiers" McNamara mainly had in mind: the men of the U.S. Army's Special Forces. The Special Forcemen are training all of South Viet Nam's Ranger companies, all of the loyalist troops in Laos, and five-man teams of South Vietnamese paratroopers for behind-the-lines raids. One of the Army's toughest combat soldiers, Rosson, at 43, is also its youngest major general, a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oregon...