Word: ncos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army's Ranger course at Fort Benning, Ga. has spread through all branches some 4,600 elite young officers and NCOs who know from bitter training experience what it takes to fight with a fast-moving battle group in the toughest campaigns...
...usually those that do the eliminating. Because a person has a low I.Q. doesn't make him an "eight ball." If the spirit of the regulations were used in eliminations, then possibly the Army could get rid of some of its "deadwood" hangers on, such as the NCOs who can barely read or write or who do not have the mentality to handle a lower-ranking G.I. other than by browbeating...
...Force took broad administrative action. Opportunities were increased for enrollment in advanced technical schools. Plans are well along to set up NCO academies in every major Air Force command. General O'Donnell explains: "The idea is to get subaltern command back into the hands of the NCOs...
...have been standing guard in Morocco, but more, apparently, were needed. From its limited reserves in Europe, the French army flew a battalion of marines and a company of security police to beef up the Moroccan garrison. It even took space on commercial airliners to fetch hundreds of Senegalese NCOs from their units in Indo-China...
Room for Hope. More revealing are the psychological interviews. Private L. of the Marine Corps was in for having struck two NCOs, one of them simply because he did not feel like putting a rifle together as ordered. His admission: "I can't live with a lot of people. They disgust me and I just feel like taking off." Private L.'s only goal seemed to be solitude; he had no dates, and even drank to "sit by myself and just drink and think." An I-2 tagged as "emotionally immature, aggressive," Private L. fully expected that...