Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's remote corners; for service families, the deep U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia is merely the renewal of a tradition. The sixth U.S. fighting man to die in the jungle war since last December, when U.S. "advisers" began to accompany Vietnamese forces into battle, was ist Lieut. William F. Train III, 24, West Pointer ('58) and son of Major General William Train, commandant of the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Lieut. Train was one of eight sons of U.S. generals now fighting in South Viet Nam.* The others...
...business. Asked what he thought of his assignment, Battalion Commander Lieut. Colonel Harold Adams answered curtly: "When the President tells us to go some place, we go." The marines were in Thailand not only by presidential order but at the invitation of the government of Premier Sarit Thanarat-the first time in 600 years that the Thais have asked foreigners in to help them defend their soil. Said a Thai Cabinet minister: "Persons with old-fashioned ideas may not like having foreign troops in Thailand, but in these times a country has to depend on collective security." Piling into Thai...
...Viet Nam at all costs. At Saigon airfield a steady stream of huge Globemasters unloads tons of electric generators, radar equipment, trucks and Quonset huts. More than 80 H21 Shawnee helicopters at four airbases are serviced by U.S. ground crews, flown by U.S. pilots-including such colorful types as Lieut. Colonel Archie Clapp, who has lent his name to his squadron, "Archie's Angels." The converted aircraft carrier Core steams regularly upriver to Saigon, carrying men, munitions and more helicopters. The 1,000-mile stretch of the South Viet Nam coast, from the 17th Parallel to the Camau Peninsula...
...year ago. baby-faced Lieut. General Chang Do Yung was the swaggering front man of South Korea's tough new military junta, which had just seized power. Less than two months later, his fellow revolutionary, General Park Chung Hee placed him under house arrest, then clapped him into Seoul's red brick Sodaemun prison. The charges: during the early hours of the takeover. Chang had harbored subversive doubts, had mildly tried to stop the coup. For this, Chang was sentenced to hang, but the penalty was later commuted to life imprisonment...
...Fiberglass may give pole vaulters nothing more than a mental lift over their aluminum-and steel-equipped competitors. But it does seem to have something. At the Mount San Antonio Relays at Walnut, Calif., Marine 1st Lieut. David Tork, 27, who had never before topped 15 ft. 8¼ in., easily cleared 15 ft. 7 in., then asked for the bar to be put up to 16 ft. 2 in. On his second try he sailed over to beat John Uelses' month-old world record...