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...artillery salute boomed across the grassy Pentagon Mall, Army Chief of Staff Harold K. Johnson last week swore in Sergeant Major William O. Wooldridge, 43, as the highest-ranking enlisted man in the 191-year history of the U.S. Army. Wooldridge, who became the first noncom to hold the new rank of Sergeant Major of the Army (the Marines have had a comparable corps-wide post since 1957) will serve in effect as the G.I.'s generalissimo. Acting as both the soldier's man-in-the-Pen-tagon and the Chief of Staff's trouble-shooter within...
...that, the Sergeant Major of the Army remains essentially the non-com's noncom, still owes a salute to even the greenest West Point graduate. "They're officers, and they run the Army," he says crisply. "I feel very strongly about that...
...near by. It took a sharp eye to spot the sandbags piled in upper-story windows. Behind some sat flinty-eyed Greek Cypriots with automatic weapons. Behind others were grim-faced Turkish Cypriots with bolt-action rifles. On a roof behind still another row of sandbags stood a Danish noncom attached to the United Nations peacekeeping force, stationed in Cyprus for the past two years. "Sure, it's dull today," he said. "It's dull every day. But it might not be so dull if the U.N. were not here...
Less than 24 hours later, the city's fragile cease-fire erupted in the bloodiest fighting since the first days of the eight-week-old war. At 8 a.m., a U.S. 82nd Airborne noncom was inspecting weapons along the international corridor when a bullet plowed into his buttocks. From Colonel Caamaño's rebel positions in downtown Santo Domingo, a stream of rifle fire laced into the troops of the OAS Inter-American Peace Force. For half an hour it went on without a reply. Another paratrooper got it in the neck. At last, the order...
...What do you think I am," demands Keenan Wynn, "some kind of nut?" Fortunately for Wynn, that is exactly what Lieut. Colonel Robert Mitchum thinks. As an American Army officer full of paranoiac fantasies, Wynn has admitted killing a British noncom stationed at his jungle outpost of Bachree because the sergeant was "defiling the white race" by consorting with native women. Mitchum, assigned to defend Wynn in a general court-martial, thinks that motive irrational enough for Wynn to plead insane and save his neck...