Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's first witness, Waverly Logan, described his downfall on the Preventive Enforcement Patrol, an elite force made up of members of minority groups. "It was like being born again," Logan recalled his feelings when he first got the assignment. But he was soon frustrated when his superiors kept freeing the men he arrested. Tempted by easy money, he started shaking down narcotics dealers and gamblers and was eventually making scores of $1,500 a month. That was only average, he testified. Heavy scorers made $3,000 a month...
...been trapped, Burkert should say he had borrowed the money the night before and was only paying it back. Tf that did not work, Burkert might say: " 'Ah, Jeez, I was counting my own money, that's all. Jeez, I might have leaned my hand into the patrol car.' I mean you can say anything...
...same time, a spokesman for the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) Police, which patrol the Charles River area, stated that 24-hour coverage has been assigned to the Weeks Memorial Bridge since the last mugging occurred there three weeks...
...command has tried with only limited success to protect Pace and similar bases strung along the Cambodian border by means of B-52 raids and assaults by helicopter gunships. As a result, despite orders to keep casualties down, U.S. officers have been compelled to send Americans out on patrols to protect some bases themselves. Few G.I.s in Viet Nam these days are unaffected by the "I don't want to be the last man shot" syndrome. Thus, when such a patrol was ordered at Fire Base Pace last week, five 1st Air Cav G.I.s took advantage of the presence...
...vernacular of the G.I., is the happy state in which one has only a few more days or weeks to serve before shipping home. That was the status of the Air Cavalry soldier who explained last week his reasons for declaring that he would not go on patrol. In a sense, it is also the status of the entire 210,000-man force remaining in Viet Nam. Nobody wants to take risks, but particularly not a soldier who is short-as an incident at Fire Base Pace indicated...