Word: noncombatant
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...four-day jail terms to war-weary troops for minor dress infractions, Mauldin-and Willie and Joe-were there with a cartoon. "Them buttons was shot off when I took this town, sir," a bedraggled Willie tells a well-scrubbed rear-echelon lieutenant. In Mauldin's view, noncombat officers were there to be put down...
...helicopter has been the greatest threat G.I.s have had to face in Viet Nam; chopper mishaps account for most of the 2,448 Americans killed in air accidents over the past decade in Southeast Asia. In the last three months of 1970, aircraft accidents were the chief cause of noncombat deaths (91), ahead of mishaps with "friendly" mines and other explosive devices (39), auto accidents (30), suicides (18) and accidental gunshot wounds (17). But the fastest-rising cause of noncombat deaths is drug abuse. In 1969, the Army did not even bother to tabulate drug deaths, they were so rare...
...G.I.s who apply for C.O. status must be assigned duties that provide the "minimum practicable conflict with their asserted beliefs" until Washington rules on the case. The Army argued that such "minimum duties" do not require shifting a soldier out of combat zones, but that he can be given noncombat assignments in fighting areas. Accordingly, Flores and the others were ordered back to the field, where they "could be used to carry rope, extra water, whatever the company needed." In the end, Flores and two other G.I. privates, Frederick H. Miller and Frank Moore, both 23, were returned to their...
...officer in a Welsh regiment training for the invasion. Now he has been transferred to the offices of the British general staff in Whitehall. In that bureaucratic maze, Powell's khaki characters may seem less military than dilatory. But anyone who has inhabited the Byzantine labyrinths of noncombat wartime staff headquarters will recognize the wry truth of Powell's picture of intrigue, futility and boredom...
West Germany still has trouble keeping her planes in the air. Last week the crash toll of F-104G fighter-bombers-known as Starfighters-rose to 70 when a German navy lieutenant safely ejected after his engine failed near Cologne. The noncombat loss of so many planes compares in military aviation only with the Luftwaffe's own horrendous record in the late 1930s, when it lost 572 aircraft in 1938 alone, including the mass crash of 31 Stuka dive bombers that blindly followed a flight leader through the clouds and smack into the ground...