Word: garrisoning
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...which had hoped to shave off 50,000 men without touching the 17 divisions currently authorized, grimly admitted that it could not. As a result, the 2nd Infantry Division, which in three wars fought conspicuously at Chateau-Thierry, Saint-Lô and Heartbreak Ridge, will be deactivated, replaced on garrison duty in Alaska by one of the Army's smaller, streamlined new battle groups. ¶ The Army announced that 18 antiaircraft artillery battalions will be closed out, 15,000 civilian employees dropped, 16 depots, arsenals or other service facilities shut down. Among the casualties: Murphy Army Hospital in Waltham...
...Enlightened Society, carries the picture of the "great leader" Mao Tse-tung, describes Japan as "the problem child of the Far East" and a nation that has always been inferior to China and Russia. The Russian declaration of war in 1945 is a triumph in which "the Japanese Kwangtung garrison, which had been played up as the. strongest of Japan's armies, melted away before the might of the Soviet forces...
...command of the Sultan's army to Major Pat Gray, one of the soldierly Britons who were tossed out of Jordan's Arab Legion along with Glubb Pasha. In response to the hillmen's attack, Major Gray sent several truckloads of troops up to reinforce the garrison, but they were stopped by mines-the first land mines ever used in battle in the Sultanate. At this point the Sultan consulted his Foreign Minister, a hulking Scot named Niel Innes who used to command the Khartoum jail, and called for London's help...
...Hussars, will be merged with the Eighth King's Royal Irish Hussars, the Royal Scots Fusiliers with the Highland Light Infantry. The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (which suffered the heaviest casualties at Waterloo) now becomes one with the Somerset Light Infantry (nicknamed "The Illustrious Garrison" after its defense of Jellalabad in 1842). Two of the best known of the Scottish regiments, the Seaforth Highlanders and the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders must form one unit, find new tartans for their men, new tunes for their pipes...
...Like Father?" No TV star, however popular, is immune from the angry viewer. Garry Moore (real name: Thomas Garrison Morfit) once announced that he was giving St. Christopher medals to members of his staff. Some viewers, believing him to be Jewish, berated him for hypocrisy in giving a Catholic talisman. Others, taking him for a Catholic, admonished him for plugging his religion. Says Episcopalian Moore: "If you say 'Happy Mother's Day,' someone's going to write in and say, 'What's the matter? You don't like your father...