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...diplomatic sleight of hand, Carter converted this protestation of innocence into a Soviet pledge. Said he: "Although we have persuasive evidence that the unit has been a combat brigade, the Soviet statements about the future noncombat status of the unit are significant." He admitted that Moscow has been building up its military presence in Cuba, contributing to "tensions in the Caribbean and the Central American region" and adding to the "fears of some countries that they may come under Soviet or Cuban pressure." But he concluded that the issue is "certainly no reason for a return to the cold...
Last year Congress ordered the Pentagon to trim 43,000 men from the military; Schlesinger intends to cut 58,000 by July. His budget for 1975 does add one new brigade to the Army but requires the 4,000-5,000 men to be drawn from existing noncombat ranks. Schlesinger also is considering more base cutbacks. Last spring then-Secretary of Defense Elliot Richardson announced that 274 military installations in the U.S. would be closed, reduced or consolidated to save $350 million a year. Schlesinger has ordered the services to recommend this spring enough other bases that could possibly...
...today has one four-star general for every 20,000 men, compared with one for every 145,000 men during the Korean War. The other branches have similarly exaggerated ratios of officers to men. Moreover, only about 15% of servicemen have combat jobs, a larger portion of personnel in noncombat jobs than ever before. Schlesinger
...Herbert's math, the half million fighting men the U.S. had in South Viet Nam at the height of the war actually included less than 50,000 grunts. Nine out of ten soldiers were in the rear or in noncombat jobs at the front. This book offers the reader dreadful panoramas of the Hieronymous Bosch Viet Nam landscape as it can be seen only by the insider: American interrogation experts presiding over whippings and water torture and electric-shock "therapy" of V.C. suspects (including women), fire bases overrun by enemy sapper squads because the defenders were all stoned...
...Force's controversy-ridden plane. Although the F-111's overall safety record compares quite favorably with those of other tactical aircraft (only 28 accidents in its first 200,000 flight hours, compared with 73 for Phantom jets), its combat record is discouraging. In five years of noncombat flights in the U.S. and Europe, 20 F-111s have been totally destroyed, but in only twelve weeks of combat missions over Indochina in 1968 and 1972, seven have been lost. Of the four reported missing in the past two months, the North Vietnamese claim to have shot down...