Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canal Zone. Many of the men now en route to Viet Nam have been there before, and some have not even enjoyed the usual two-year respite between combat tours. To prevent the thin green line from getting thinner still, the Administration may well have to put major Reserve ground components on active-duty status for the first time since the Berlin crisis of 1961. These forces would not necessarily be sent to Viet Nam, but would serve as a ready back-up in the event of emergency elsewhere...
...some time that the Administration will inevitably have to draw on the Army National Guard and Reserve as well as the Marines' standby division. The Administration had hoped to avoid this disruptive measure, giving in only last month when it mobilized 14,000 airmen. A call-up of ground elements could well be more painful because a typical Guard division of some 14,000 men, for instance, is concentrated in one state, whereas the smaller air units are well distributed geographically. Among other possible steps to ease the shortage of trained forces would be an extension of tours...
...Russians do have, however, a force similar to the U.S. Marines. It is the so-called Naval Infantry that fought as regular ground units during World...
...ground rules: no liquor or psychedelic drugs during the session, no cameras, no leaving the group in pairs. Also: "Participants agree not to engage in overt sexual expression . . . denned as any activity which would be socially inappropriate in a similar group wearing clothing...
...exposes them to erosion and sunlight. In South America, lateritic soil has baked into rock-like hardness and become useless with in five years after it was cleared for farming. As yet, there is no evidence of laterizing of similar soils in Viet Nam after defoliation, probably because the ground cover is never completely destroyed and grass and weeds reappear...