Word: infantryman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern equipment: the fully automatic M-14 rifle (which finally is replacing the famed M-1 of World War II), the lightweight M-60 machine gun, a lighter and livelier Jeep, the M-60 tank, and enough M-113 armored personnel carriers to give a lift to every footslogging infantryman in the Seventh Army...
...tipped Jupiter missile (no kin to Jupiter-C), only to have it taken away by the Department of Defense and given to the Air Force. Other sorely needed Army funds were spent on such Buck Rogers gimmicks as the one-man helicopter and backpack rockets that would turn an infantryman into a flyboy capable of clearing a building...
Named to head the new command, which is unnamed as yet, was the Army's Lieut. General Paul D. Adams, 54, a West Pointer ('28) who is proud of his rating as both a paratrooper and a combat infantryman. Adams, who will be promoted to full general for the job, commanded the land forces during the U.S. intervention in Lebanon in 1958, and he knows how hard it is to get troops to the right place at the right time. Says he: "The unified command is the only way to get the job done...
...three times faster than sound and 15 miles above the ground, it could serve as a nuclear bomber, a satellite launcher, or a six-jet civilian transport that could span the Atlantic in an hour. But what would be its strategic value in the missile age? "Doubtful," answered Old Infantryman Dwight Eisenhower last January, as he chopped the B-70's development budget for fiscal 1961 from a requested $385 million to only $75 million, barely enough to build two stripped-down flying shells. Last week, just eight days before the election, the Eisenhower Administration swung around, increased fiscal...
...good to read again (Sept. 26) about Bill Mauldin. When I was an infantryman in Europe during World War II, his Willie and Joe cartoons were deeply appreciated. I haven't seen my old wartime friends for many years, and was overseas at the time of General Marshall's death [when Mauldin drew his last Willie and Joe cartoon]. How about reproducing the 1959 cartoon for those of us who never had a chance to say a proper auf Wiedersehen to those old dogfaces...