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...Mayfield," a highly skilled, 43-year-old career sergeant, devised forlornly human techniques-separating the newly arrived married men into different platoons, for example, to reduce the danger that they would all be killed at once. Medics are allowed in the field only seven months because they start developing an obsessive sense of responsibility. Says Glasser, "They begin getting freaky, cutting down on their own water and food so they can carry more medical supplies; stealing plasma bottles, writing parents and friends for medical catalogues so they can buy their own endotracheal tubes." Some carried M & M candies as placebos...
Glasser describes two night ambushers at work. One is intent on completing a collection of North Vietnamese army belt buckles, like Norman Mailer's Sergeant Croft collecting gold teeth. In the claustrophobic jungle night he encounters a "gook," attacks him with a bicycle chain and then with his bayonet, "knifing again and again until he could feel the head coming loose in his other hand." Back in camp at breakfast, another soldier sees the blood on his hand. "That you?" he asks. "Johnson looked thoughtfully at his hand. He seemed suddenly subdued, almost awed. 'No,' he said...
Raleigh, "a most satirical courtier," commands the book, but three splendid set pieces are the best of it. Garrett summons three ghosts-a sergeant, a sailor, a courtier. These winy wraiths testify singly and at bold length about Raleigh, but mostly about soldiering, flattering, storms and other things they know. The illusion is so good that the skin crawls. Here, for example, is the courtier taking his leave: "This ghost, an ageless young man, ever idle and restless, courteous and cruel, unchanging child of change, this man will say no more. He touches his lips to signal silence. He smiles...
...four months after Pace was set up last May, the North Vietnamese caused no problems. Since then, however, they have stepped up operations, and the South Vietnamese troops assigned to provide security for Pace are not up to such duty. "We are not strong enough," a Vietnamese sergeant assigned to the base complained last week. "Everytime we move out, we get our asses kicked...
...blast at MIT damaged the building housing the Center for International Studies, like the CFIA, a target for radical criticism. Roscoe said 'the similarities led him to turn his files over to the chief MIT investigator, Sergeant Edwin C. Peterson...