Word: infantryman
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...group repeatedly challenged their commanding officers to attempt missions fraught with the possibility of injury and death. In turn, the men attempted to match their commanders with death-defying exploits of their own. Such compulsive courting of disaster contrasts sharply with the attitudes of the average infantryman, said Dr. Bourne, probably as a result of the fact that the Special Forces soldiers had been aggressive, individualistic and self-reliant types since childhood. By surviving such constant exposure to hazard, Bourne felt, each Green Beret reconfirmed his own belief that he was invulnerable and omnipotent. - Dr. Charles Pinderhughes, a Negro psychiatrist...
...area, U.S. troopers counted 182 rockets and mortars, 260,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition, 13,000 rounds of larger-caliber ammunition and 8,700 hand grenades and mines. Several hundred North Vietnamese even left behind their AK-47 rifles, violating the most basic principle of war-that an infantryman never loses his weapon even in retreat. The idea that the North Vietnamese pulled out as a voluntary gesture of de-escalation is thus contradicted by all the facts. The biggest fact is that at Khe Sanh they were badly whipped by U.S. airpower...
...bosomy heroine's scrapes with sex. The best article is by Edward Bastian, a graduate in political science from the University of Iowa, who spent a month in Viet Nam and captures the grime of the war. "You're always soaked, always miserable," he writes, describing the infantryman's lot, plodding through mud and swamps. "Your boots stink and your socks rot-and your feet rot if you aren't careful." Which goes to prove that there's more to say about one rotten sock in Viet Nam than a whole discotheque full of electric...
...southbound NVA infantryman, customarily headed for an organized North Vietnamese unit but sometimes also for duty as a replacement in decimated Viet Cong ranks, is drilled night and day in the patriotic mission he has been given. "My heart is filled with joy and with an intense love for our kinsmen," one NVA wrote in his diary upon crossing the DMZ into South Viet Nam. The aim of such saturation indoctrination is to try to ensure that NVA recruits are "politically reliable...
...everyone who saw it, the body certainly looked like Guinn, John W., Private First Class, 53756082, U.S. Army. Two of the infantryman's buddies identified the corpse in a paddyfield near Chu Lai after a firefight with the Viet Cong. When morticians in the Elizabethton, Tenn., funeral home opened the casket last week, even Mrs. Blanche Guinn, 54, thought she recognized her 23-year-old son, despite the bandages that partially covered his face. She hung funeral wreaths, framed the telegram notifying her of his death along with a $25 money order he had mailed...