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...When he first saw combat in Viet Nam as a civilian pacification specialist, in fact, Ellsberg seemed to enjoy the experience. A reporter recalls hearing loud shouts as a U.S. infantry company operated near Rach Thien in 1966. "There was Ellsberg, dressed in fatigues and jungle boots, telling the infantrymen to get off their goddamned asses, to get on the offensive and stay on the offensive. He carried a submachine gun and was practically taking over the company...
...perhaps more important, Kerry said, is the fact that "to a large degree the only people who see what the war really does are the people who fight it-enlisted infantrymen. And there are not really that large a number of those...
...broader debate over how the war in Indochina has been conducted. The Calley verdict could create serious practical problems of command discipline. Already at Khe Sanh, there is a defiant sign: "A" TROOP, 15T OF THE 15T CAV, SALUTES LT. WILLIAM CALLEY. Many of the enlisted infantrymen in Viet Nam agree. Says one, a member of Calley's old Americal Division: "The people back in the world don't understand this war. We were sent here to kill dinks. How can they convict Calley for killing dinks? That...
...strikes are adding strong support to the South Vietnamese infantrymen in what Saigon has termed their deepest and most important advance of the Laotian invasion...
Pentagon spokesman Jerry W. Friedham said yesterday that the use of infantrymen to guard rescue operations represents "absolutely no change" in administration policy...