Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...checked food items for Peoples Drug Stores, Inc. in Washington, 32-year- old Frank Porterfield had a wonderful recurring daydream-he pictured himself leading his National Guard MP platoon in dashing feats of arms. Like his guardsmen, Lieut. Porterfield was tired of the dull routine of study and drill which filled their Tuesday evenings at the armory. He decided to put his dream...
...drill night last week, 50 white-helmeted MPs came roaring onto the Capitol grounds in a line of bouncing, skidding jeeps. Luckily for all concerned, Congress had gone home for the day. Most of the guardsmen ran off into the bushes with waving pistols and carbines, yelling "Take cover!" But a few drivers kept their jeeps snarling in circles. Other MPs ran to the Capitol steps and set up a light machine...
Roscoes Out. Guardsmen with walkie-talkies yelled into their instruments; an ambulance came screaming up the drive. Its driver bawled: "Where are the wounded?" The effect of all this was spectacular: Lieut. Porterfield had told nobody-not even the Capitol police-that he was "recapturing" the Capitol from an imaginary but bloodthirsty...
Pedestrians peered and crowded, babbling curiously. A Capitol cop who was walking his beat on the West Front took one look at the shouting guardsmen and prepared for countermeasures...
...defense control center with the U.S. Air National Guard. Every bomber was intercepted by the defending fighters before it got within range of its target. Limited and simple as the problem was, it demonstrated, said the R.C.A.F., "the ability of the Canadian Air Reservists and United States Air National Guardsmen to integrate forces in the event of an emergency...