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...General William C. Westmoreland wrote, "In Vietnam today brave Americans are defending the rights of men to choose their own destiny and to live in dignity and freedom." One of Michael's own letters said, in reference to the antiwar protest in the United States, "Most of the grunts (infantrymen), E-6's and below, are pulling that things get wilder at home...
Syria plunged deeper than ever into the turbulent Lebanese civil war. In the cool, dark hours one morning last week around 3,000 infantrymen and nearly 100 tanks moved across the border into neighboring Lebanon. This was another desperate attempt to help end the 14-month-old fratricidal bloodletting that has already claimed more than 20,000 lives. It was also a high-risk gamble that could embroil the Syrians in a major confrontation with most of the Palestinian movement. Yet this new attempt at a Pax Syriana may just force the Lebanese to discuss their differences long enough...
...with FNLA, which provided weaponry against the MPLA offensive, but, while it retained control of much of the countryside, UNITA was unable to hold the cities. FNLA, without any significant support among the peasantry of the north, was quickly routed by MPLA's expeditionary force of 12,500 Cuban infantrymen...
...Each quarter, every unit of the 2nd undergoes two weeks of training in night fighting; the men sleep during the day and maneuver at night in rugged terrain to accustom themselves to the night attacks employed by Communist troops 25 years ago. Every six months the division's infantrymen participate in air-mobile exercises complete with artillery support, helicopter gunships and fighter-bombers-and live ammunition...
Borrowed Cassock. By midmorning the paratroopers had been reinforced by a naval armada. Protective Turkish destroyers hovered off Kyrenia harbor on the northern coast, and infantrymen were helicoptered ashore and frogmen swam in. Soon battles raged throughout the island, particularly around Nicosia and its vital airport...