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...will have no time to ask whether we want to be in this war at this time, because American troops are going to be fighting for their lives." It has been argued that the G.I.s should be replaced by South Korean troops, but Colonel Wallace Magathan, deputy commander of the 2nd Division, says that the presence of American troops on the DMZ underscores the American commitment to South Korean security. "We're still not in a state of peace," he adds...
...their antiaircraft guns and SAM sites. More often than not, a key target must be cleared all the way through the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon before the pilots take off. The pilots call the JCS strikes "doomsday missions" because, as Air Force Captain Glenn R. Magathan of Chicago explains, "there's no way in and no way out without flak, and when you get there, they are all stirred up and mad as hornets." "As a matter of fact," he adds, "on our base we call the guy who wakes us up before a JCS strike...
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