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...land, one of the wounded tries to disentangle himself from the limbs of the dead. A soldier in regular uniform starts throwing gear onto the ground, then the dead. The corpses are arranged around the gunship, one here, one over there, one face up, another face down. A medic leads the stowaway off. The crew still stands by the craft, but no one wishes to move or speak. It is a moment of shock and disgrace. I squeeze the pilot's shoulder. "You see," he says, "here there really is a war going...
...mollify prosecutors, he handed over $2 million, his last remaining assets from a business that once reaped a $12 million profit in 90 days. His marriage broken, his friends in jail, his career ended, Steinberg still sees himself as much the same gentle youth who served as a medic in Viet Nam for eight months in 1968. Says he: "Marijuana doesn't hurt anybody. We never saw ourselves as really doing anything wrong...
Manpower. This may be the most critical problem of all. As Republican Senator Roger Jepsen of Iowa puts it: "We can spend billions annually on the most modern and sophisticated weaponry, but in the final analysis it is the infantryman, sailor, pilot and medic that will determine our nation's strength." For the moment, all the armed services are meeting their enlistment goals and the quality of recruits has improved dramatically. From October through March, 68% of all volunteers joining the Army were high school graduates, vs. only 37% a year earlier. The increase coincided almost exactly with the effective...
Sergeant Donald Hohman, 38, an Army medic, repeatedly fasted to protest the treatment of the hostages. Said he: "They would throw me into solitary every time I would fast. I guess I bugged them by not cooperating with anything they wanted me to do. Until we got onto the plane Tuesday, I hadn't really seen many of the other hostages...
...people were seasick, but there was no hysteria." By 9:30 a.m., helicopters began hoisting people from the lifeboats in baskets and ferrying them to the rescue vessels. Only a handful of passengers suffered any ill effects from the cold. Said Master Sergeant E.L. Nardi, an Air Force medic: "Eight hours later, we would have lost half of them...