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Space is allotted to each service in pro portion to the total number of men it has in the country, which comes down to 65% Army, 15% Marines, 12% Air Force, 6% land-based Navy and 2% Coast Guard. A serviceman sub- mits his choice of time and city, and does not always get his first pick. But once he gets his orders, he is a coddled and happy fellow...
What he seeks and what he does in his five days is as various as American youth itself. In general, the modern U.S. serviceman is better educated, more sophisticated, more curious about alien cultures, and better behaved than any of his predecessors-and he has more money to spend. On the average, he spends roughly $200, making a total yearly tourist bonanza for the area of some $72 million. And he may be the best-behaved soldier in history. One R & R officer stationed in Thailand, where the record shows only one serious incident for every 12,000 G.I.s...
...just following orders." The Uniform Code of Military Justice, mindful of the Nürnberg trials, clearly states that a subordinate is not justified in following an order if it "is such that a man of ordinary sense and understanding would know it to be illegal." Moreover, every U.S. serviceman arriving in Viet Nam is given a printed card entitled "The Enemy in Your Hands." It advises bluntly: "It is both dishonorable and foolish to mistreat a captive. It is also a punishable offense...
...Kudos to Dr. Rusk and TIME for exposing the napalm flap as bilge [March 24]. If few have questioned, surely thousands have suffered in silence the cruel allegation that service in Viet Nam turns decent young men into sadistic beasts. Preposterous. Until he was sent off to war, that serviceman was the son upstairs, the boy next door, the lad down the street. Taught to fight? Yes, but not to murder...
...arrange for a tie-in selling campaign with novelist Robin Moore (Sadler poses for the paperback cover for The Green Berets), tell him to write enough songs to fill up an album, and get the show on the road. In months, Sadler is the American Legion's "Favorite Serviceman 1966," the owner of two Jaguars--one black and one blue--and the name-sake of the Barry Sadler Foundation for college scholarships to Vietnam victims' children...