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...issue: what about the Africans? It turns out Gandhi's concern with racial discrimination was limited to Indians--in fact, he offered to organize a brigade of Indians to help the English colonial rulers crush an African rebellion. On a related note, we never see how Gandhi (Sergeant-Major Gandhi) earned a War Medal from the British Empire for valor under fire while assisting the violent suppression of South African Blacks...
...locations ahead of time. The expensive ($1 billion apiece) Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers equipped with the AEGIS air-defense system have never been pitted in simulated combat situations against low-flying missiles like the Exocet. When the Army's new DIVAD-system air-defense gun, called the Sergeant York, was unable to hit maneuvering planes, it was tested instead on hovering helicopters. The Army says that is now the gun's main function, even though it does not fulfill that task particularly well...
...also paid a price for the Berlin episode. Special Forces Staff Sergeant Jay Thomas Stanley, a communications specialist, was wounded in the left leg by guerrilla ground fire while flying in a helicopter near the border of Usulután, about seven miles from Berlin. At first, U.S. officials maintained that Stanley was on a "training mission." Later, however, the U.S. embassy in the capital of San Salvador announced that Stanley's immediate superior had been relieved of duty for ordering the sergeant to act in violation of congressional strictures that forbid advisers to enter Salvadoran combat zones...
...March, however, police headquarters dropped the charges without explanation. The original arresting officer, Sergeant Thomas Tully, was bemused-not least because the government had just changed and the local member of parliament, Sean Doherty, had become Minister of Justice. In May, Tully raided the bar again and shortly thereafter was ordered transferred to another district...
...always absorb the sense of what was said ... During this period he got as hopelessly absent-minded as he ever has been ... When he was doing chores he would be thinking about the work ... Once when laying the table he put down knife, fork and glass for [his character] Sergeant Lamb. He did not do this, however, for Jesus Christ when he was working on King Jesus...