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Quarterback Tom Thornton is a scram- bler. He has thrown 12 times a game and hit on half of those, for a total of 302 yards and three touchdowns. He is small at 170 pounds, but he is good. His favorite target is speedy split end Reggie Rucker, who has caught two of those TD heaves...
...Viet Nam veteran stationed at the Army's main pilot-training center, Fort Rucker, I am one of those Army chopper jockeys feeling the "pilot pinch" [April 14] -in the paycheck. The Army can afford up to $245-a-month hazardous-duty pay for commissioned officers, but the maximum it can muster for its growing corps of warrant-officer pilots is $165 a month. My present hazardous-duty pay as a chief warrant is a whopping $115, compared with the $180 a captain with equal time in service would draw flying the same aircraft on the same mission with...
CHARLES T. McNAiR Fort Rucker...
...right, I'm all right," cried Mrs. Johnson as she emerged unscathed into the arms of a neighbor. Angrily, Judge Johnson rushed to the scene along with police, firemen, FBI agents and an Army demolition team from Fort Rucker. As usual, there were few clues, no suspects. But the bombing appalled even Governor Lurleen Wallace, an archfoe of Johnson's school decision. Denouncing "the fiendish demons who committed this act," Lurleen announced a $5,400 reward for information. If the bombing was "in any way related" to the school order, declared Lurleen, "this is not the American...
...faculty at Wolters and Rucker consists increasingly of gung-ho Viet Nam veterans who imbue their students with the sense of mission that marks their units in the war zone. "The heli copter has done a great job," one gunship pilot tells his students. "If the chopper hadn't been in Viet Nam, that place would have been long gone by now." The close-cropped heads of warrant officer candidates nod enthusiastically. Says Major General John Tolson, commander of the Army Aviation Center: "They don't seem to find what they want in college. They just want...