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...best SAC crews are designated as "select" or "lead" crews. These crews are assigned specific targets in Russia or elsewhere, and must commit to memory all of the intricate details of getting on target and back to a friendly base. Members of select and lead crews usually get spot promotions to the next highest grade. But their skills are constantly being evaluated -in the squadron, in the wing, and every six months by a two-week special check by LeMay's personal examiners. If a select or lead crew falls behind in bombing, navigation or whatever, it loses...
...recently flown from Limestone Air Force Base in Maine to England in 4 hr. and 37 min.) First, on the day before take-off from Upper Heyford, the three-man, crews went through a two-hour briefing session on what they were supposed to do. Then the "scopehead" (SAC slang for the bombardier-observer who runs the radar and is responsible for putting the A-bomb on target) of each crew withdrew to calculate- his course and study the radar pictures of his plane's target so he would be able to recognize the target by radar...
...That EDC is part of a "crash" buildup program to meet an emergency that no longer exists in so threatening a form. Those now unwilling to make the sac-rifi es demanded in EDC point out that the U.S. (despite its talk of no relaxation) is now cutting its arms budget and its foreign aid. General Gruenther, called home to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on becoming head of NATO, said: "I do not think war is ever going to come [in Europe]. We are going to stop it from starting...
...moray as it fights the spear, and glares hate from what is surely the most evil eye in creation. There is the merry jig of the infant octopus, no bigger than a finger, as it watches the underwater world it will inherit through the lucent membrane of its natal sac. There is the grave pavane of the beruffled nudibranchs, tiny fish that swirl among moving fronds like bright dancers in an oriental court. And there is the fish that walks, the fish that is nothing but a mouth, and the fish that shills for a poisonous anemone, luring other fish...
...permit the Administration to take a sizable cut out of the defense budget. Eventually, Wilson himself began to deride the Air Force goal of 143 wings as "unrealistic" and "unobtainable." Flying out to Omaha to inspect the atom-bomb-carrying Strategic Air Command, he sat through a briefing by SAC Commander Curtis LeMay only to comment at the end of it: "I think 57 wings for SAC is too many." And three weeks ago, when Charlie Wilson's defense budget went to Congress, it was clear that the Sherman plan had triumphed. Most of the $5.2 billion...