Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wodehouse novel. He is tall, languid, perennially short of cash and preoccupied with strange solutions for his problem. Lord Glenorchy has tried his luck as barman, bagpiper and laborer to supplement the $28-a-month pension he draws as a wounded veteran of the famed Black Watch Regiment. No luck...
...West Point, Richard Shea doggedly set one Academy record after another on the track field: the indoor mile (4:10), and both the indoor and outdoor twomile. Turning up in Korea in the closing weeks of the fighting. 2nd Lieut. Shea led a platoon of Able Company, 17th Infantry Regiment on Pork Chop Hill. One night the company was heavily hit by a Chinese attack, but stood its ground. Lieut. Shea led two counterattacks that night and three the next day. His own company was cut up; he himself got a shrapnel wound in the neck. But doggedly refusing evacuation...
...could gripe about the hardships. Each echelon claimed that the men to the rear were "fat" with luxuries. The man on the line envied the man at battalion because he usually slept on a cot and lived in a tent and had three hot meals a day. Battalion thought regiment "had it made" because there the men rode around in jeeps. The soldier assigned to regiment wished he was farther back at division, where it was safer, where there were showers, Korean houseboys to do the laundry, and movies almost every night. The man at division figured the corps headquarters...
...given command of the ist Virginia Regiment and the responsibility for protecting every scattered settler on its borders. He learned hard lessons: the difficulties of recruiting Americans for military service, the harsh necessity of discipline (once he hanged two deserters on a 40-ft. gallows to impress his less than ardent troops), the jealousy and backbiting inherent in public service...
Homeward bound for his new post as U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Robert B. Carney, commander of NATO forces in southern Europe, made a last inspection of the 8th Regiment of Italy's famed Bersaglieri. Remembering the strict uniform regulations of official Washington, Admiral Carney tried on, just for size, one of the flashy, droop-feathered hats of the crack sharpshooters...