Word: serviceman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Safeguard of Character. In the course of its inquiries the committee came across a lot of evidence to confirm what every experienced serviceman and ex-serviceman knows: that pride in one's unit is the cement, whether at base, in the line, or in P.W. camps of Korea. "Many servicemen exhibited pride in themselves and their units," the committee reported, discussing the one encouraging portent of the P.W. camps. "This was particularly pronounced where they had belonged to the same unit for years. They stood by one another . . . If a soldier were sick, his fellow soldiers took care...
...SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD Dallas ¶ McCarthy signed up with the Marines as a private in January 1942, with orders to report to Quantico for officer training, was commissioned three months later. In the Pacific he was an air intelligence officer and often flew missions in the rear gunner's seat. In March 1945 he applied for and got his discharge from the Marine Corps. Neither the Marine Corps nor McCarthy has officially answered the V.F.W.'s statements...
...York area until at 16 he ran away, lied about his age and joined the Marines. After 18 months in the Pacific, he was discharged, attended the University of Southern California for three years, then bought a one-way ticket to Europe with his $250 New York State serviceman's bonus. In Paris, he lived on his $75 G.I. Bill allowance, finally talked Variety into letting him do occasional reporting. Three months later, he went to the Paris Herald Tribune, and last year persuaded the paper to run his column in its New York home edition...
...Serviceman Bob Toth, flown back to Korea to face an Air Force court-martial for murder, was returned because...
...case poses a crucial point. If the Uniform Code is constitutional, it could conceivably mean that in the future no ex-serviceman will be wholly beyond the reach of military justice. On the other hand, if Toth wins his freedom from the Air Force, he will probably never stand trial, since the case is clearly outside the jurisdiction of any civil court. For Toth, a long series of courtroom struggles and appeals lies ahead, and the end could bring him anything from scot-freedom to death before a firing squad...