Word: noncoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would listen for hours to his father's tales of warring with General Pershing on the Mexican border. He joined the Army at 17, received a battlefield commission during World War II, and rose to captain. But with his sketchy education, further promotion was impossible. He reverted to noncom, now holds the rank of sergeant-major. Still hard and trim at 48, Kelley is in charge of re-enlistments for the Second Division Headquarters, about 20 miles north of Seoul, Korea...
This is especially true in the boondocks, where the men have nothing to spend their money on but beer and slot machines. This enables the 300 enlisted men's clubs and the smaller numbers of noncom and officers' clubs to rake in profits of up to $16,000 a week. The clubs, in turn, can afford to shell out from $150 to $500 a show for professional comics from Australia, dance troupes from the Philippines and rock-'n'-roll combos from the States...
...girl who invades their paradise - played by Connie Stevens, an actress with the vocal cords of a Southern noncom - is a superpatriot who treats the American flag like a family heirloom. Nonetheless, her "smell" sends Benjamin into an aphrodizzying spin. Trying feverishly to free his writer from this sexual block, Perkins soon follows his own nose to the selfsame love. On this slender plot line, the playwright has hung some Simon-pure comedy of the inane, the illogical and the absurd. His natively quirky touch is evident when Benjamin attempts to escort the girl bedward with the line, "This...
...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...