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...honor guard stood at saber-stiff attention and a 19-gun artillery salute boomed across the grassy Pentagon Mall, Army Chief of Staff Harold K. Johnson last week swore in Sergeant Major William O. Wooldridge, 43, as the highest-ranking enlisted man in the 191-year history of the U.S. Army. Wooldridge, who became the first noncom to hold the new rank of Sergeant Major of the Army (the Marines have had a comparable corps-wide post since 1957) will serve in effect as the G.I.'s generalissimo. Acting as both the soldier...
...Best in the Army." To fill the new post, Johnson screened 21 candidates recommended by his field commanders. Wooldridge was summoned from Viet Nam, where he had been sergeant major of the 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One) whose C.O., Major General Jonathan O. Seaman, says flatly that Wooldridge is "the best soldier in the Army." Articulate and tough-minded, the Texas-reared sergeant vows that he will not "pester General Johnson with the complaints of people who only think they have problems"-but intimates that he has views of his own and will press them...
...TIME'S belief that Sergeant York was the only hero to emerge from World War I [June 24] is unfortunate. Haven't you overlooked T. E. Lawrence, whom Winston Churchill called "one of the greatest beings alive in our time...
...seemed a quiet afternoon in Tra Khe village near Danang as U.S. Marine Sergeant James Dodson, 23, of York, Pa., went out on patrol. He passed out candy and C rations, took the village children for a ride in his Jeep, helped with such chores as rice harvesting and mashing. Suddenly he was slugged from behind. When he regained consciousness, he was being trussed, like some modern Gulliver, by six Viet Cong, who led him off into the jungle...
...candy they had bought. Finally they spotted a U.S. C-130 Hercules transport landing behind a ridge and arrived at a South Vietnamese army compound at An Hoa, 20 miles south of Danang-unshaven and tangle-haired, each 30 lbs. lighter, their feet blistered. Grunted a sergeant as they staggered up to the camp perimeter: "You're lucky. My sentry almost shot...