Word: pfc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leonard Matlovich, the Air Force technical sergeant who has begun a legal challenge to the military's prohibition of homosexual servicemen (TIME, June 9), now has some company. Last week the Army started proceedings to give less-than-honorable discharges to two lesbian WACs. Pfc Barbara Randolph, 22, of Indiana, and Private Debbie Watson, 20, of Texas, voluntarily admitted their sexual preferences to an interrogator as the result of a whispering campaign about their activities at Fort Devens, Mass. Both women intend to fight the dismissals, said Private Watson...
JOHN FERMIN, 32, a former Army PFC, lost a leg during his five months in Viet Nam. He is now recuperating from a liver operation in Manhattan's VA hospital: "I don't think we had any right over there. I don't mind helping the people, but they should have fought the war themselves. But I figured that if we were there to fight, we should fight to win. We got into it halfway and I came home with half a leg. America is a powerful country. She stands for human rights. She's ashamed...
...rights of noncombatants, as laid down by the Geneva Convention and Army regulations. Worse, they knew that others in their outfit had got away with raping and killing Vietnamese civilians. "That evening, as we cleaned our weapons and got our gear ready, we talked about the operation," Pfc. Robert W. Pendleton told the Peers investigators. "People were talking about killing everything that moved. Everyone knew what we were going...
...dirt, men!" one officer yelled-to the relief of Pfc. Willie Wilkins from Akron, who proceeded to lie face down in the sand. "These people can be gung-ho," he muttered, "but I'm just going to play the game. I can give you my opinion of this entire operation in two words...
...Most of us look forward to this," grinned Pfc. Leffie Powell, 20. "We're having a war against the lizards and snakes. But the reservists think of their two weeks as forced servitude...