Word: infantryman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, American ground troops have already vindicated the nation's need for a strong, flexible army. From the training grounds of Fort Dix, where a massive statue of a charging infantryman is respectfully known as The Ultimate Weapon, to Viet Nam where kid infantrymen moved into a solid sheet of fire last month on a single word from a platoon sergeant, Johnny Johnson's soldiers exude a new confidence. They know they...
GRUNT is a current Marine Corps term for its infantryman...
...Redeye antiaircraft missile should give the infantryman his own weapon against strafing planes. It can be fired from the shoulder, is capable of finding its target by sensing the heat of the airplane's engine...
...dancing and social deportment" as a child in Brigham, Utah. At the urging of a balletomane uncle, he and his two elder brothers, William and Harold, formed a dance team and toured the vaudeville circuit as "the Christensen Brothers." Then came a four-year tour of duty as an infantryman in World War II, and Lew returned to find himself too stiff-muscled to dance. He turned to choreography and in 1948 took over the reins of the San Francisco Ballet from his eldest brother William, who had headed the company for a decade. In all, Lew has created some...
...best estimates indicate that China has 35 field armies, each numbering four divisions, or 40,000 men. The Chinese infantryman is armed with a stamped burp gun of a simple type that has a fast rate of fire but an exceedingly bad reputation for accuracy. He is most often a conscript and is carefully chosen...