Word: manpowerâ
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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Thus one serious casualty of the war has been the U.S. military itself, the instrument of that will. Abnormal requirements for instant manpower???and the disaffection of so many of the educated young?lowered the services' standards to some extent. Said one senior Army officer: "Calley would never have become an officer if we were not so short-handed." As the war ground on, the protest movement infected the Army itself. "Fragging" became part of the new vocabulary of the '60s. Occasionally units refused orders to go into combat. "Grunts" smoked marijuana openly at their firebases. Thousands came home contaminated...
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