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...jury of his peers. In O'Callahan's case, Justice William Douglas wrote for the majority, "there was no connection-not even the remotest one -between his military duties and the crimes in question." Normally, the military prosecutes only about 15% of all cases against servicemen charged with serious civil offenses. The rest are handled in civilian courts. But Douglas suggested that it was high time for the military to divorce itself entirely from purely civilian problems...
Eliot said the Army should operate without pay for servicemen, for "the idea of a man's doing it for pay is absolutely revolting," he said...
...February, Meyer was sent to England for temporary duty. He left his wife and three children behind in the rural town of Poquoson, Va. One night last week, Meyer went into Freckenham, a Suffolk town near the Mildenhall air base, got drunk at a party attended by other servicemen and found himself arrested by a constable. He was taken back to the base and put to bed. Although Meyer was under orders not to leave his barracks, about 5 a.m. he got up and sneaked out of his billet. He showed his identification card to a guard and walked onto...
...allowed to comment. The officers and NCOs of the U.S. forces with whom I have served are serving you-the U.S. public-extremely well. Your DOD is indeed the Department of Peace and I believe there are too few citizens who share the dedication to their country that your servicemen do. To be able to raise forces (under the threat of the draft) as professional, responsible and dedicated to the aims of political direction which gives them everything to do the job except authority to win, bodes well for America. If your university faculties and students could be endowed with...
...years since U.S. forces stormed ashore on Okinawa in the final major battle of World War II, the island has been transformed into the equivalent of the world's largest aircraft carrier. There are 45,000 American servicemen now based on Okinawa. From sprawling Kadena Airbase, huge B-52 jets roar out nearly every day on bombing missions over South Viet Nam. Much of the island has come to resemble a particularly vulgar version of American suburbia, and U.S. spending now accounts for 60% of Okinawa's $644.4 million G.N.P. If the U.S. were to pull out, Okinawa...