Word: ret
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Commander, U.S.N. (ret.) New Orleans
...highly trained professional military force of 500,000-600,000 capable of handling the sophisticated weapons for national defense, and an annual military budget of between $25-30 billion will provide this nation with all the security possible through military means. Hugh B. Hester Brig. General U.S. Army (Ret...
Died. Rear Admiral (ret.) Frank W. Fenno, 70, Navy submarine commander who, shortly before the fall of Corregidor in 1942, stole into enemy-infested Manila Bay in the U.S.S. Trout to deliver a cargo of ammunition and slipped out two days later to carry most of the Philippine treasury to safety; of cancer; in Kensington, Md. On his way to Pearl Harbor with the loot, Fenno sank two enemy vessels, winning the first of three Navy Crosses...
...Army Gen. Hugh B. Hester, ret., has said that ROTC is self-defeating because, in anything, ROTC programs distract students from more useful study in regular Arts and Sciences courses. Because of their rank and because of time wasted on ROTC courses of little value, ROTC graduates, Hester wrote this summer, often prove more difficult to train in complex technical skills than do regular college graduates new to the military...
Colonel, U.S.M.C. (ret.) Atlanta