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...Your article on rest & recuperation for servicemen [Dec. 22] was interesting, but the pictures were heartbreaking. How horrible for a wife to see full color pictures of what is available to her husband on an R & R. My husband is a rated major in the U.S.A.F. and will be in Viet Nam this time next year. A year of separation is hard enough in itself, but to have it rubbed in as to what he could be doing is enough to cause depression and worry on our part. Granted, they need a rest and recuperation period and are fortunate...
...TIME accurately reported what the U.S. Government pays Pan American Airways for its services in providing air transportation to U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam for rest and recuperation trips. However, it should also be noted that Pan Am provides this service at cost and as a non-profit public service to U.S. military personnel in the war zone...
...where the record shows only one serious incident for every 12,000 G.I.s who visit Bangkok, says: "The trouble rate is so low, no one wants to believe it." In Hong Kong, police authorities say that they have more trouble with the resident British garrison than from visiting U.S. servicemen. Busting up bars seems to be something that went out with From Here to Eternity and the professional army. The G.I. these days is a civilian at heart-and savvy enough to reject the most importunate tout's offer of "a good place" with a grin and a worldly...
...usually, in the words of a 173rd Airborne trooper, "a girl." But, he added carefully, "I'm also very interested in the cultural bit. I figure I may only be coming this way once." And because they may never come this way again, large numbers of R & Ring servicemen earnestly seek, watch, explore and examine a range of cultures that they would never otherwise have even glimpsed...
...battle began in 1963, when American Airlines offered half-price seats to servicemen on a standby basis. Ever since, U.S. airlines have been competing for traffic with an ever proliferating and vastly confusing array of cut-rate fares. As a result, more passengers than ever are crowding aboard planes. But the cheap promotional fares are putting such a squeeze on profit margins that last week four major trunk carriers agreed that the time had come to dump some of the discounts...