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Former Marine Sergeant Leonard Budd, who now works for the department of public health in Rowley, Mass., spent 5½ years in North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camps after the truck he was driving near the DMZ was ambushed. Budd feels that aid to Viet Nam should be cut off. "We were right to supply them as long as the supply was needed and they had the initiative to follow through and use it wisely," he said. "But the way they have been wasting it, with their morale as low as it is, and deserting at the rate they...
...military service performing menial tasks. Unlike Dutch or West German soldiers, they are prohibited from wearing their hair long or engaging in any kind of political activity. Corporal punishment has been abolished, but the men are subjected to harsh discipline: an occasional kick in the pants from a sergeant is still used as a reprimand...
...Fort Jackson seems to back him up. The rates of courts-martial and AWOLs are down. I never talked to more soldiers who did less bitching. In fact, no one even seems to swear any more. I heard exactly one four-letter word. On a rifle range, a sergeant turned on a complainer and shouted, "That's tough shit, soldier!" The lieutenant in charge of the range looked shocked. He grinned at me and said, "Well, you can't change human nature." The incident made me feel a little more at home...
...this any way to treat the future King of England? A color sergeant barked the orders, and the Prince of Wales obediently risked his neck by wriggling through a half-submerged pipe, swinging across chasms, scaling climbing nets and wading through the icy waters of Devon Marsh. It was revealed last week that in November...
...When Sergeant Shoichi Yokoi surrendered in the jungles of Guam in 1972, all Japan was excited by the emergence of "the last soldier" of World War II. Yokoi immediately became a national hero. When the second "last soldier" of World War II, Lieut. Hiroo Onoda, was found in the Philippines last March, Tokyo sent a chartered jet to bring him home. When a third last soldier was captured on the remote Indonesian island of Morotai last month, the Japanese began to show a little embarrassment. How many more aging sons of Nippon can still be fighting for the Emperor...