Word: rifleman
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...month will find scarcely a rifleman still facing the enemy who was in the lines before peace talks began last July 10. Under its troop rotation plan, the U.S. has sent back to the States more than 200,000 veterans since the start of the Korean war, 160,000 of them since July. Among the departed are most of the battlewise battalion and regimental commanders...
Young Lieut. Patton, a dead-shot rifleman, banged away at the twisting target. He was outraged when the judges told him that he had scored one clean miss. Why just the day before, in a practice round, he had set an unofficial record of 98 out of 100. But Patton might well have been jittery about an upcoming ordeal. During the next four days, against the world's best athletes, he would have to 1) swim 300 meters, 2) fence from sunup to sundown, 3) ride a strange mount over 25 jumps on a rugged 5,000-meter course...
...Korea's Hill 217, time hung heavy on the hands of huge, handsome Rifleman William ("Samson") Speakman of the Black Watch. It was the eve of Guy Fawkes Day (Nov. 5), a day on which Britons remember with firecrackers the anniversary of the 1605 "Gunpowder Plot" on Parliament, and that gave Samson an idea. "Let's build up a nice pile of grenades," he suggested to Sergeant "Dolly" Duncan. "Then, when the Commies come, we'll let 'em have it." Dolly agreed, and the two set to work filling a trench with hand grenades and chuckling...
...Joes standing around George Company's C.P. bunker went on watching U.N. artillery shells burst against Communist bunkers on a mountainside 3,000 yards up the valley and said nothing for a while. Finally, a 23-year-old rifleman from Honolulu, whose black hair had grown streaked with grey since he came into the line last July, spat on a splintered railroad tie. "So what?" he asked. "I'm going to start holding my breath? I ain't counting on nothing except that old big R in rotation to get me outa here." The BAR (Browning automatic...
Fighting men in Turkey come cheap. JAMMAT people figure they get a rifleman complete with pay, housing, food and all equipment for $500 a year. This compares to around $2,700 for the American doughfoot. The asker gets an allowance of about 12? a month, which he somewhat bitterly calls his tras parasi (shave money). The asker's boots and uniform look awful. The asker looks particularly bad on furlough. The army, very practically, gives him a sloppy, patched-up uniform for leave, so he won't tear up his fighting clothes. But there is a proud spirit...