Word: pfc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This place is nice from what I've seen. I talked to some Panamanians last night, and I doubt if they'll have to use us," said Army Pfc. Michael Grant of the 5th Division from Fort Polk...
...order to start coaching at West Point, he was obliged to join the Army. PFC Knight earned $89 a month and all the cadets he could eat. Under an intemperate head coach named Tates Locke and an institutionalized system of hazing, Knight instantly burst forth as the most undisciplined disciplinarian since General George S. Patton, or at least Woody Hayes. By 24, he was the head coach at Army; by 30, he had moved over to Indiana University, and as of last week Knight's Hoosiers are the national champions for the third time in twelve years...
...University of Chicago, where Roth earned a master's degree in literature. Quarterlies published his first stories. One of them, The Contest for Aaron Gold, was selected for the 1956 Martha Foley collection of Best American Short Stories. By this time, he was a 22-year-old PFC churning out press releases for the U.S. Army. In off-hours, he used his Government-issue typewriter to compose the tales that would eventually merge in Goodbye, Columbus...
Finally, just before 8 a.m., Pfc. Paul Healey, 20, led a counterattack through the front gate, personally killing five V.C. with grenades and his M-16 rifle. Minutes later, two paratroop platoons from the 101st Airborne Division at nearby Bien Hoa landed on the rooftop helipad...
...describe PFC Joseph White, who defected to North Korea [Sept. 13], as an earnest, straightarrow, all-American youngster, too shy to be popular, and unabashedly patriotic. That is just the point. Such a severely self-disciplined and rigid personality is exactly the type that would defect to more tyrannical conditions...