Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tough young men of the 82nd Airborne Division lined up beneath him. One from each state and territory, 52 in all, had come to meet the President. "It is a pleasure," he told the paratroopers, remembering that he had once gone up with the airborne people at Fort Bragg, N.C. "I didn't get to jump out," he confessed with real disappointment. "But I hope some day to do it." In his heel-kicking mood, Harry Truman was ready to take on anything...
...weeks after he took over, the Pentagon decided to convert the 82nd into one of the first two U.S. airborne divisions. To show his men what paratrooping might be like, Ridgway, who had no particular airborne qualifications, hied himself to Fort Benning to make a parachute jump. "It was the most glorious feeling in the world," he told the dubious infantrymen. "You feel like the lord of creation floating way up above the earth...
...even the tidy Ridgway house (Quarters No. 7) at Fort Myer has the breath of military austerity. The living room looks like a room a man had decorated. There is not a paper or a letter showing in the pigeonholes of the desk. Until Christmas week, one of the sights of the post was the general and 21-month old Matt Jr. standing together on their porch at dusk, stiff as ramrods, saluting the colors...
Brigadier General Joseph S. Bradley, 50, commander of 25th Division: West Point, 1918; stationed in Philippines and China in 1920's and 1930's; chief of staff, 32nd Division, commander 126th Infantry Regiment in New Guinea, World War II; postwar service in the Pacific and at Fort Benning, Ga.; went to Korea as assistant commander of 25th Division...
...command teams are back in the U.S. for jobs of first importance: applying battle experience gained in Korea to the training of the expanding Army at home. Major General Hobart Gay, onetime commander of the ist Cavalry Division, is deputy commander of the Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Major General John Church, ex-commander of the 24th Division, is the new boss of the Army's famed Infantry School at Fort Benning. Major General David Barr, former commander of the 7th Division, is now commander of the Armored School at Fort Knox, Ky. Major General Laurence Keiser...