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Explained a general: "In each squad you may have -only one man who really wants to fight. You need him there to influence the other men. Under the Ranger program you had that one man volunteering to be a Ranger, which leaves the squad bare of inspiration to fight...
Last fall, after enemy infiltraters began doing serious damage in Korea, new units of Rangers were hurriedly organized and trained. In Korea, however, the Ranger idea did not work out too well. Division officers were too busy to spend much time locating objectives and planning special operations for the expert and specially trained Rangers. Also some of the Rangers' missions were not suited to their equipment and training, and brought disastrous casualties...
Last week it looked as if the Rangers might go out of the Army again: word came from Korea that Ranger companies have been broken up, the men sent individually to the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team in Japan...
...currents, hidden reefs and fickle winds. There, last week, three American and three British six-meter racing yachts caught the breeze in the race for the British-American Cup, a junior-sized edition of the America's Cup (won last in 1937 when the U.S.'s sloop Ranger handily beat England's Endeavour II in four straight races...
...Drought is now in its tenth year of creeping paralysis. Forest fires burned 26,450 Arizona acres in June and are roaring on. (New Mexico, Washington, Oregon and California also had drought-born forest fires.) "It's so dry, a hot breath could start a fire," said one ranger...