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...Captain. To Captain Joseph Miller, Schine's first company commander, McCarthy was less friendly. Miller, a com bat medic in World War II, a platoon leader in Korea, described life with Schine in restrained terms, but showed signs of inward boiling when McCarthy baited him by calling his testimony "drivel...
...from Dienbienphu. The French were pulling back from their antique forts and were concentrating in mobile groups at centers like Namdinh. The French redeployment was no simple matter: Communist guerrillas had often worked so closely around the forts that full-scale offensive operations were needed to withdraw a two-platoon garrison. The day after the fanon ceremony, Cogny had to send 2,000 men, 200 vehicles and 15 tanks to rescue 110 Vietnamese infantrymen from Doaithan and Thanhne, a couple of surrounded forts less than 20 miles from Namdinh. Cabled TIME Correspondent John Mecklin, who rode with the French column...
Like Doaithan, the fort was decayed and rotting. The signs of siege and uselessness were everywhere: overgrown paths, cracked-mud earthworks and rusting barbed wire. The two-platoon Vietnamese garrisons had long been immobilized, their mission-protecting the countryside from Communists and collecting rice-a bitter joke. The Communists-barefoot guerrillas, not even regulars-had even burrowed deep into the outer fort defenses...
Verbal Ectoplasm. "He is vigorously welcomed at the station by an earnest, crew-cut platoon of giant collegiates, all chasing the butterfly culture with net, notebook, poison-bottle, pin and label, each with at least 36 terribly white teeth, and nursed away, as heavily gently as though he were an imbecile rich aunt with a short prospect of life, into a motorcar in which, for a mere 50 miles or so traveled at poet-breaking speed, he assures them of the correctness of their assumption that he is half-witted by stammering inconsequential answers in an over-British accent...
...MARINE CORPS accepts some 300 Navy R.O.T C. graduates each June, but trains most (1,100) of its college students in draft-exempt platoon-leader classes, commissions them on graduation after two six-week summer-training sessions...