Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history of warfare shows one constant," he says, "it is that victory on the battlefield goes to the side that can best maneuver and employ its firepower. This has been demonstrated by Caesar and his legions, by Genghis Khan, by Stonewall Jackson in his valley campaign." Similarly, Lieut. General Dwight Beach, chief of Army Research and Development, rates the experiment as significant as "the introduction of the first tank and chemical warfare in World War I or the Panzer-Stuka team used by the Germans in World...
...combination, on a red "fire" button. This sets off a carefully coordinated sequence in which at least 15 men are vitally involved. At last, Lacy pushes the red button-and holds it down. A console lights up: "Captain's permission to fire." The weapons officer, Lieut. Commander Russell McWey, shouts "Fire One." The ship's fire control supervisor presses his own "fire" button. A five-ton steel hatch opens on deck, and a burst of compressed air ejects a 15-ton, 30-ft. Polaris A-2 missile. Skyward from beneath the sea's surface, the missile hurtles...
...S.A.O.'s shooters and looters, a military court last week handed down harsh judgments for the nine captive members of another S.A.O. group which had tried to assassinate De Gaulle in the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart last August. For the ringleaders, the penalty was death. Ex-Lieut. Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry heard the sentence impassively, but flinched when the judge added that he would be expelled from the Légion d'Honneur; ex-Lieut. Alain Bougrenet de la Tocnaye was equally impassive as he stood at attention in his army uniform; Jacques Prévost...
...officially by Commandant David Shoup to uphold the honor of the corps, took the 50 miles in stride. Led by Brigadier General Rathvon McClure Tompkins, 50, who still limps from an old shrapnel wound, all finished within the time limit, carrying 24-lb. combat packs. Tompkins finished ninth. Bachelor Lieut. Donald Bernath trotted in first-in 11 hr. 44 min.-just in time to keep a date with his best girl. At Great Lakes Naval Training Center, a contingent of marines managed to finish 53 miles, took exactly 20 hours...
...slack-jawed youths who seemed equally lacking in confidence and intelligence. One was an army lieutenant with the old, aristocratic Breton name of Bougrenet de la Tocnaye, and a head reeling with heroic memories of his family's feats of arms dating back to the Crusades. The leader, Lieut. Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry, 35, who had graduated from the famed Polytechnique and served as a brilliant air force engineer, revealed himself as a man who put great industry, intelligence and logic to work within a framework of mad zeal...