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Over the tall green pines of south eastern Alabama, singly and in forma tions of seven, the ungainly olive-drab helicopters swoop and buzz like dragonflies. Night and day they churn above the Army Aviation Center at Fort Rucker. They blast the wire-grass country with rockets, machine-gun slugs and grenades. They execute intricate maneuvers high in the sky and inches off the ground, turning once-tranquil skies into some of the world's most congested airspace...
Sense of Mission. Actual helicopter work starts at Wolters with an elementary 16-week course, after which the trainees-who must wear their peaked caps backwards until their first solo-are ready for an advanced 16-week course at Rucker. There they study and practice gunnery, formation flight, night operations, navigation, camouflage methods, jungle survival and base security. Nearly all the new pilots go to Viet Nam directly after graduation...
Fifty Harvard Army ROTC students will leave Cambridge at 6:30 a.m. this moring for Ft. Rucker, Ala. The cadets will fly from Massachusetts to Alabama aboard three Army planes from Ft. Rucker aviation center...
...students, who are to return by air Saturday afternoon, will attend a demonstration of vertical envelopment techniques while at Ft. Rucker...
...Rossi is not the end of the pitching staff. Back in high school, Tom Rucker threw so hard that the St. Louis Cardinals reportedly offered him a good-sized bonus to play for them. A football injury that left Tom with a sore shoulder temporarily ended his professional hopes and left him a sore-armed pitcher for two years. He won three games, had an 0.72 earned-run average, and looked a lot like a big-league pitching prospect...