Word: rangers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Guy A. Wiggins, Guatemalan Desk, State Dept., quoted in Tsunami, Catholic University, Mar, 1969, cited in Thomas and Marjorie Melville, op. eit., p. 28) All of Guatemala's top colonels are trained by the United States (Castillo Armas was a Fort Leavenworth grad), and all the counter-insurgency Ranger troops are trained at Ft. Gulick, Panama Canal Zone. But then, as the late Ambassador John Mien said as he presented Guatemala's gorillas with a few armored vehicles, grenate launchers, and jet powered helicopters...
...long war, a fleet of U.S. helicopters was skimming into North Viet Nam at treetop level, slipping through the narrow "windows" or gaps in Hanoi's radar system frantically preoccupied with the fighter-bombers high in the Vietnamese sky. Aboard the choppers were about 40 Green Beret and Ranger troops led by Army Colonel Arthur ("The Bull") Simons, 52, a near-legendary veteran of World War II, Laos and Viet Nam. He is considered by many to be quite simply the finest derring-do combat commander in the U.S. Army. Like the 20 or so Air Force specialists manning...
...Valley floor. Also in attendance were 40 reporters and cameramen, one of whom finally provided activity for the would-be rescuers. While the climbers celebrated near by, a member of one of the television crews, suffering from a hernia, had to be carried off the mountain by a park-ranger rescue squad...
...Milkshakes. In Saigon last week, the Army admitted that some of its units have been using Agent Orange despite the suspension. The man who dug up the evidence-and then passed it on to TIME-was Ronald Ridenhour, the former Army Ranger whose letters to Congress started the investigation into the My Lai massacre. Now a freelance journalist, Ridenhour recently spent ten days visiting the Americal Division in Chu Lai, where he began hearing rumors about the continuing use of Agent Orange...
Though some traditionalists would like to dismiss Chance as a brash upstart, at 30 he is actually a year older than Stephens was when he helped design the 1937 Cup winner. Ranger. And, like the old master, he is very much to the manner born. A product of Philadelphia's Main Line, Chance has been a water baby "since my mother dropped me overboard when I was two." His father won a yachting gold medal in the 1952 Olympics. Sisters Jan and Elli are top small-boat skippers, while Uncle Henry is a noted ocean racer. Brit Jr. began...