Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industrial targets around Hanoi and Haiphong, the strikes hit many of the same roads, bridges, ferries and supply dumps that were plastered when the bombing originally started a year ago. Farther south, the ground war was markedly intensified in both scale and determination. More than 25,000 U.S., South Korean and South Vietnamese troops scoured the countryside in six massive operations; one of them, the division-sized "Operation White Wing," was the biggest and possibly the costliest yet mounted in the war (see THE WORLD...
During the Korean War, Feeney said, a student who scored high in the test was deferred even though his class rank...
What makes the message so chilling is that its receiver has a pretty good chance of ending up where the fighting is. For the first time since the Korean conflict, which most of the present generation knows only through TV documentaries or current history courses, a draftee may find himself in real danger of his life. At the beginning of 1965, when the U.S. had only 23,300 men in Viet Nam, less than 1% were draftees; today, draftees make up 20% of the nearly 200,000 men in Viet Nam, and the proportion is likely to go higher with...
...will no longer be automatically deferable; they will be called when necessary to fulfill draft quotas. To decide which students to take, Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey, 72, the onetime Indiana farm boy who has run the draft for 25 years, has reinstituted the qualification test used during the Korean War. Hershey believes that only the best students should be spared, will demand either a good score on the 100-question College Qualification Test or a reasonably high rank in class to ensure a student of deferment. The new rules, while not necessarily making the draft more democratic, at least...
Going into the Army is not the ideal of many, but it is no longer what it used to be even as recently as the Korean War. Military training, equipment, facilities and officers have all become far more sophisticated than ever before. The loudmouthed drill sergeant has largely disappeared, and the Army has worked hard to give a sense of personal dignity to its soldiers. For those with limited schooling, there are countless opportunities to learn valuable skills; for those with college degrees, there is something to be learned from sharing in the experience of their generation. The ambiguous nature...