Word: servicemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even before the 1,698 pages got to Congress, events threatened to overtake the budget. The Reserve forces called up cost $10 million a month while on active duty, and if they are kept in that status, the cost reduction of 13,000 mustered-out servicemen predicted by the budget will be canceled out. What further ripples will spread from the U.S.S. Pueblo can only be guessed...
...broad-scale test of this idea was carried out at the Army's Fitzsimons General Hospital in Denver with wounded servicemen returned from Viet Nam. Last week in Chicago, Colonel Paul W. Brown told the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons that 56 servicemen with open tibial fractures had been treated this...
...cast. Within 24 hours, they had the patient on crutches and encouraged him to put as much weight on the broken leg as he could tolerate. This proved to be highly variable. "But," said Colonel Brown, "we did not push if there was pain." One thing that spurred the servicemen on was that they had to be either up and in motion, or lying down with the leg elevated to avoid edema and other complications...
...found it hard to believe that the wife of a military man had written the letter concerning the "heartbreaking" pictures of servicemen on leave from Viet Nam [Jan. 5]. I'll thank God for five days when I'll know my husband is safe. I find worrying about the other 360 days of his tour very depressing. R & R is one brief respite from the terrible burden of responsibility that any officer lives with day and night. Winnie Poteete says wives could use rest and recuperation. If you will stack 24 of your hours against...
...previous week 234 South Vietnamese soldiers and 166 Americans had been killed. In 1966, the U.S. lost 5,000 dead, the ARVN 11,500. This past year, government forces suffered 12,000 killed, the U.S. 10,000. South Vietnamese in uniform have, of course, always outnumbered American servicemen in Viet Nam. Today there are ten ARVN regular divisions, totaling some 321,000 men. Manning the vulnerable mud forts and watchtowers across the country are an additional 142,000 Regional Force (R.F.) troops and 143,000 P.F.s, or Popular Force militiamen...