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...soldiers' zeal in fighting Rhodesia's guerrillas. A young trooper in a downtown Salisbury discotheque sounded a now familiar complaint: "What the hell. We've surrendered already. If Smith's not going to fight, I damn well won't either." A letter from a reservist to the Rhodesia Herald seconded the soldier's view: "Is it worth doing my call-up in two months time? I don't want to lose my life only to see the leaders of this country sitting around a table with terrorists...
...places the border is still deadly violent. Near Ein Zivan on the Golan Heights, a 31-year-old reservist was killed shortly after my visit. Rockets fired from Syria hit a car in which he had thumbed a ride. Strangely, no one else was even injured. Near "Fatahland," where the borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria converge and Palestinian guerrillas are still active, highway signs include notices that TRAVELING AT NIGHT is FORBIDDEN. In the farming village of Metulla, which has lost two men killed and five wounded in fedayeen attacks from Lebanon, Mayor Assaf Frankel wistfully said: "I hope...
...resident who is attending a free 50-week shipwright course and receiving a living allowance to boot: "There's no way I would go back. I'm getting an education and learning how to do something I want to do." Adds Herb Rains, 22, a former Army reservist who now works as a counselor for incoming resisters in Malmo: 'There's simply nothing for me to go back to. I'm very much involved in the Swedish way of life, and I like...
...solder the final link in this chain of traditionalism, I joined the Marine Corps' Platoon Leader Corps (ROTC). My father had been a Captain in the Marines during WWII, my brother had been a Corporal in the Korean War, and a publicity sheet called The Marine Corps Reservist had come to my home every month along with the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine...
Between the wars, the United States kept the ROTC-trained reservist as the key figure in the nation's defenses, maintaining the tradition of the civilian soldier dating back to the Minute-men of 1775. But the ROTC system was not merely romantic; it was also reasonably successful. When war came in 1941, a reserve of over 56,000 ROTC graduates was available for active duty to permit a more rapid mobilization of the nation...