Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Army called up 119,000 reservists and National Guardsmen during the 1961 Berlin crisis, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was appalled at the results. The civilian soldiers stood at a pitiful average of 65% of authorized combat strength. Several supposedly crack divisions were hopelessly out of training, and many of the troops spent most of their time writing Congressmen and complaining to newsmen about the indignity of being summoned to duty. Then and there, McNamara vowed to overhaul and shape up the nation's reserve ranks. Last week he got into action...
During an earlier meeting, after the Kaiser boasted of his seven-foot German guardsmen, she replied: "When we open our dikes, the waters are ten feet deep." But in World War II it was the Dutch who were engulfed in a German tide...
...France-Presse, was shot in the back while covering the battle. An Oxford workman named Ray Gunter was shot in the forehead while merely watching it. A total of 166 marshals, 30% of all those sent to Oxford, suffered injuries or wounds, along with some 40 soldiers and National Guardsmen...
...hard core of devoted World War II or Korean veterans, plus recruits ranging in age from 17 to 26 who escape the two-year draft by taking a six-month tour with the Army, then return home to spend from three to 5^ years with their local units. Guardsmen "train" for two hours a week, go off to summer camp for 15 days every year, earn a minimum of $180 a year...
Powerful Force. For such reasons -plus the fact that it is always ready and available to fight riots, blizzards or floods-the National Guard is a popular and powerful force. Frequent efforts to cut or reform the Guard have been met with outcries of rage from states, communities and guardsmen alike. Says an official of the National Guard Bureau in the Pentagon: "In many communities, the Guard is just like the fire department. Look around and you'll see even the mayor and councilmen in many of these towns are big guns in the Guard. If they aren...