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Nation Editor Michael Demarest is practically surrounded by military tradition: his father was a U.S. cavalry officer; his father-in-law was a U.S. Air Force officer; his wife Peppina, a sergeant in the Air Force, operated a Link trainer in India during World War II. Mike preferred the sea. As a quartermaster in the U.S. merchant marine in World War II he served on tankers, Liberty ships and troop transports, survived a German submarine attack that blew up half his convoy...
...strong, flexible army. From the training grounds of Fort Dix, where a massive statue of a charging infantryman is respectfully known as The Ultimate Weapon, to Viet Nam where kid infantrymen moved into a solid sheet of fire last month on a single word from a platoon sergeant, Johnny Johnson's soldiers exude a new confidence. They know they...
Disciplined & Deadly. Under conditions as formidable as any he has ever faced, the U.S. fighting man in South Viet Nam has already proved in battle that he is a disciplined and deadly adversary. "These guys are better trained and better led than ever before," says Sergeant Grady Trainor, a World War II and Korean veteran with the 1st Air Cavalry Division. In part, as Johnson points out, the proficiency of today's G.I. is a product of higher educational levels: 75% of all enlisted men are high school graduates v. 48% in 1952; the same percentage of officers have...
Snake Ration. At Fort Jackson last week, Sergeant Woodrow Weaver, a Viet Nam veteran, faced his class, unbuttoned his shirt and casually pulled out a writhing northern pine snake. "Any time you are going through the jungle and come across a nonpoisonous snake," he advised, "pick him up and put him in your shirt. If you find yourself without food, pull him out and eat him." A poisonous snake can also be eaten, said Weaver, "if you cut his head off just below the poison sacs." Pointing out that rattlesnake meat is "considered a great delicacy" (it sells...
...think we could get those courses just by telling the departments that we want them." The committee will be a sounding board for new ideas--a means for organizing and implementing new proposals--rather than a source of command. "I'll be acting as a kind of staff sergeant--taking orders and ideas from everyone...