Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about in basic--the light machine gun, the recoiling rifles, the rocket launcher, the carbine, the mortar, and the pistol. He marches to distant ranges where he had been driven before. He learns to use a bayonet, bivouacking for four weeks out of the eight. Two RFA's at Fort Dix, N.J. in 1957 won the Expert Infantryman's Badge, the foot soldier's most coveted award, beating out several combat veterans in the process...
...Army, however, has never been more outwardly enthusiastic about any new program. "Everyone connected with the program agrees on its success," writes Maj. Gen. Kenneth P. Bergquist, commanding general of Fort Dix. RFA should stand, not for Reserve Forces Act, says Maj. Gen. P. D. Ginder, assistant chief of staff for reserve components, but for "Ready For America...
...Fort Wayne...
Unwritten Rule. Although most editors use wire-service stories of Sunday network TV shows, many are still sensitive about acknowledging that the news in their pages originated on TV. When the Fort Worth Star-Telegram printed its story on Mikoyan's TV interview, it omitted the name of the program on which he appeared, and that of the broadcasting company (NBC's Meet the Press). Editors are particularly pained at picking up news stories developed by local TV stations. In Chicago some rewritemen still invoke the old unwritten city-room rule to omit the names of the show...
Next came news from Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. that Colonel Franklin R. Sibert, commander of the 2nd Training Regiment and an Episcopalian, had lent his personal weight to a St. Maurice campaign. A large painting of the saint was hung at headquarters, drawings of St. Maurice were displayed throughout the post, the officers' club was named St. Maurice Club, the gym was named after him, and wooden scrolls appeared on the barracks walls bearing the inscription: "We live, fight and die for God, country and St. Maurice...