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...entirely during the course of a year's hard combat. Only 500 of the original troops who arrived at An Khe are still on duty in Viet Nam. The rest have been rotated Stateside, many to instructors' billets at the Air Cav home base in Fort Benning, Ga., where their combat expertise is well applied. The new First Team is still 70% "regular Army"-career soldiers rather than draftees-and thus man ages to retain a solid base of experience among junior officers and sergeants. Nearly 100 Air Cavalrymen re-enlist or extend their duty in Viet...
...Although Lucy was with Roosevelt on the day he died in April 1945, at Warm Springs, Ga., the reports of the visit indicate that both she and Mrs. Elizabeth Shoumatoff, an artist who was doing a watercolor portrait of F.D.R. (and who had previously painted Lucy), left the house as soon as F.D.R. was stricken, and went to Aiken, S.C. They were not present when he died...
...Smyrna, Ga...
...special tickets and a special car for Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd at his Inauguration" in 1933. He also visited the Rutherfurds' stately winter home in Aiken, S.C., several times, and the Rutherfurds called at the White House. Daniels says that Lucy visited the Little White House at Warm Springs, Ga., on several occasions. In fact, though her presence was unpublicized at the time, she was with Roosevelt there on the day he died-April 12, 1945. To the very last, according to Daniels, Mrs. Roosevelt was "bitter and jealous of Lucy...
...spent the last two weeks at Travis Air Force Base, Ga., on his first summer stint with the 133rd Nation al Guard Tactical Fighter Squadron, where his regular assignment was to work in a clerical section under a Negro master sergeant. His superiors and buddies alike were unanimous in pronouncing him a regular guy and a hard worker. He handled requests for interviews by not giving any. He was photographed on KP duty, and pictures of Nugent tromping down garbage and washing dishes got wide circulation...