Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bridge Is a Bridge." To meet the demands of the war and the Corps of Engineers' own manpower shortage, an engineers' training regiment, inactive since Korea, has been reactivated at Fort Belvoir, Va. The first class of 60 men started training last month, will be joined by a new group every other week until the regiment reaches an operating strength of 1,200 men. Courses at Belvoir are specifically Viet Nam-oriented, with heavy stress on such skills as reinforced-concrete bridge design and construction, maintenance of equipment-not to mention combat and survival...
...program got under way last week at Georgia's Fort Gordon and at Fort Polk, La., where another Vietnamese village has been set up. The course consists of an extra 98-hour week of field training and marks the first time that the Army has given such specialized and authentic preparation to troops for a specific battle zone. "Our aim," says Colonel Warren Davis, 51, commander of Fort Gordon's 3rd Training Brigade, "is to turn out the kind of troops you would like to have when you are over there...
...historical heroines of India's freedom movement is the widowed Rani of Jhansi, who joined the 1857-1858 Sepoy Rebellion against British rule. Leading her small personal army, she captured a British fort and defended it until she was cut down in battle by a British hussar. The big change in feminine status came with Mahatma Gandhi, who urged women of every caste to cast aside convention and share equally with men in India's struggle for independence. Thousands heeded his call, and as India won freedom, so did many of its women. A woman served as Shastri's Health...
...reduced to 170 fighting men, battled so fiercely that Indian losses soon stood at 7,000 dead. Once again, the Nawab stood ready to lift the siege, but once again his enemies rescued him. Fifty-six Dutch mercenaries sold out to the Indian leader and handed over the fort...
...position-and then hid in a cellar, where he fell asleep on a storage bin. After he woke up, Drake took his first and last decisive action. He strode to the riverbank, jumped into a rowboat, and was last seen shinnying shamelessly aboard a merchantman moored near the fort...