Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counseled 1,500 veterans in 14 months. One veteran stopped by to talk on his way to commit an armed robbery. He was dissuaded. Another, Daniel Parker, 30, tries to exorcise his nightmares. Sometimes when he sees his three children sleeping, he flashes back to the day his patrol swept a village. Trained to shoot at anything that moved, he fired at a basket. When he turned it over, he found three dead babies. After being wounded and returning to the U.S. in 1969, Parker had difficulty keeping a job. In the past year, counselors have talked with him about...
...instructions that have been given to the 50 trainers who are down there, technicians and so on, are very explicit. They are not to engage in any combat; they're not to go in areas where there has been combat; they're not to go out on combat patrol; they're not to fly helicopters in the combat areas or where there has been combat. They are to engage strictly in training, and in assistance of that kind, and not to yield any requests or indeed to go in any areas where there might be combat. The guerilla situation means...
...antiguerrilla patrol-afirefight, death and fleas...
Captain Juan Vicente communicated with his three squad leaders by radio, because it was impossible to see more than a few feet through the jungle and coffee trees. The patrol moved on, clambering up a soft cliff face in the clammy heat...
...traveled to the front lines to send back this "World Exclusive." Obviously a writer by training, Venter opens his dispatch like this; "Dawn comes early in most parts of Africa." And two sentences later, this: "First light had come early to a group of eight South African soldiers on patrol during the winter of 1980." It turns out that, nearby these troopers, perhaps in the nooks of the jungle where light will arrive somewhat later, there are Marxists. A reconnaisance mission uncovers "at least a dozen of the bastards." Pretty soon, the bastards are dead. As Venter says in summary...