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Breath-Taking. In Louisville, the Navy narrowly averted a bookkeeping crisis by enrolling as Bennett (NMI)* Stalard a youth whose real name is Hugh Alexander Morris Gene Saul Ralph Giles Gilbert Motoer Marquis Miles Marion Mayo John Charles James Gordon Bennett Adams Christopher Columbus Elijah Green Eversole Bradley Kincaid Robert Jefferson Breckenridge Stallard...
...five: Chairman James W. Wadsworth, onetime New York Republican Congressman; M.I.T. ex-president Dr. Karl T. Compton; former Under Secretary of State William L. Clayton; retired Admiral Thomas Kincaid; Lieut. General R. S. McLain, onetime banker (Oklahoma City) and only National Guard officer to command a combat corps in World...
...Major General William W. Eagles, commander of ground forces, was replaced by breezy Major General Josef R. Sheetz, a convivial hustler who had done an able military government job in Korea. Air Force troops on Okinawa are commanded by grey, quiet-spoken Major General Alvin C. ("Ack-Ack") Kincaid, whose slightly absent-minded philosopher's air belies his hardheaded attention to discipline and morale. Since the change of command, Okinawa's scandalous decline has been arrested. But Sheetz and Kincaid still have a tough situation on their hands...
Sheetz and Kincaid are faced with other morale hazards. Recreational facilities consisted of a few broken-down movie shacks and football fields. Okinawa had become a dumping ground for Army misfits and rejects from more comfortable posts. In the six months ending last September, U.S. soldiers committed an appalling number of crimes-29 murders, 18 rape cases, 16 robberies, 33 assaults...
General Sheetz believes that the U.S. has far more than strategic interests on Okinawa: it carries, he says, "the moral responsibility of a Christian people to others." Sheetz, Kincaid and their staff are facing up to that responsibility; they are determined not to let Okinawa down...