Word: mcchord
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...served at least ten months in Viet Nam, and theirs was the first unit to be shipped home since President Nixon's June 8 announcement at Midway that 25,000 U.S. troops would be withdrawn this summer. Last week they flew in nine C-141 StarLifter transports to McChord Air Force Base in Washington. As bystanders clapped and called out "Thank you! Thank you!" they paraded proudly through downtown Seattle, their jungle green battledress stained dark by a pelting rainstorm. Said one exuberant captain: "We would have marched in snow...
...children could do this, even when they saw jelly beans inside. Of 1,000,000 of the Palm-N'-Turn containers tested in Ontario, Canada, only 21 caps were pried free, and 18 of the 21 had been improperly locked by parents. In the Fort Lewis and McChord Air Force Base areas of Tacoma, Wash., a 16-month test of Palm-N'-Turn caps reduced cases of child poisoning from drugs...
...Mildenhall, England. In the U.S., some other reservists are working too hard at their new military jobs to have time for much complaining. "Nobody goes around here wondering what he is doing and why," notes Master Sergeant Eugene Bostock, a member of the 941st Air Force Reserve Group at McChord Air Force Base south of Tacoma, Wash. "It's a good group," says Bostock, a grey-haired veteran of World War II and Korea. "But I'm not naive enough to believe that McChord would fall apart if we weren't here...