Word: noncombatant
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...staff is more accustomed to pouring its big ideas down its collective hatch at the officers' club. Besides, his men suffer noncombat fatigue from squiring Stateside VIPs around the island (their code word for the chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee is "God"). But with a wobbly assist now and then, Marblehead carries on. To give the home front "the little picture," he promotes what he calls a "Joe Blow of Kokomo" campaign to locate the typical young...
FACING a slash in its budget, the Air Force is already pulling in its belt on noncombat planes. It canceled orders for 420 T36 trainers placed with Beech and Canadair, recalled 37 C-54 transports that it had leased to airlines. The Navy also canceled Temco Aircraft's "secondary source" contract for some 100 F3H-1 Demon jet fighters. McDonnell Aircraft, the primary supplier, was unaffected. Current backlog of all aircraft orders: $18 billion, enough to keep the industry busy for more than two years...
...missiles to destroy a million-dollar bomber, hadn't we better reassess the latter's real strategic value? . . . Control of the air will shortly pass from piloted aircraft to antiaircraft guided missiles [and then] the piloted aircraft will cease to have tactical significance except for noncombat employment...
World War II: Was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Shackled to noncombat jobs until 1943, when he got a fine sea billet as captain of the new battleship Indiana in the Pacific. Proved himself a shrewd and relaxed combat officer. Once, when warned by the captain of the ancient Tennessee ("Old Blisterbutt") about making too much smoke, he coolly signaled back: "Smoke unavoidable. Forced to cut out the boilers and burn garbage to slow down to your speed." In 1944, promoted to rear admiral and assigned to MacArthur's theater; led an amphibian group safely through...
...more U.S. casualties in Korea, bringing the announced total for eight months of the war to 50,675. In one respect, however, the total figures are deceptively high. The Pentagon estimated last week that 60% of all those listed as wounded in action (and 80% of all noncombat casualties) are eventually returned to active duty. The latest breakdown...