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...device is effective only when operated into the wind. Carried by the leading man in a patrol, for example, the E63 will pick up the odor of patrol members themselves if the wind is at their backs. But it is sensitive enough to pick out an upwind enemy sniper lying in ambush at distances greater than the range of most rifles. "There's no question about it now," says Lieut. Colonel Alvin Hylton, chemical officer of the 1st Infantry Division. "It works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Applied Science: Sniffing Out the Enemy | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

Only after Brown had spotted a concentration of black pajamas did Team Two withdraw. As enemy sniper bullets stitched around and between them, the scouts blasted back with fragmentation grenades and bursts of automatic fire that chopped

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Democracy in the Foxhole | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...military history, its Negro fighting men are fully integrated in combat, fruitfully employed in positions of leadership, and fiercely proud of their performance. In the unpredictable search-and-destroy missions through the Central Highlands, in the savage set-piece battles along the DMZ, in the boot-swallowing, sniper-infested mangrove swamps of the Mekong Delta, on the carrier decks and in the gun mounts of the Seventh Fleet offshore, in the cockpits of helicopters and fighter-bombers in the skies above both Viet Nams, the American Negro is winning-indeed has won-a black badge of courage that his nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Democracy in the Foxhole | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...most trampled patch of greenery in America may well be the small knob above Elm Street in Dallas, close to the Texas School Book Depository. The grassy knoll owes its notoriety to conspiracy-peddling critics of the Warren Commission who contend that an unidentified sniper on the knoll fired on John F. Kennedy. Last week new evidence appeared to support the Warren Commission's conclusions that no bullets came from the knoll; that the two shots which killed Kennedy and wounded Governor John Connally were triggered by Lee Harvey Oswald from the book depository building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Assassination: Shadow on a Grassy Knoll | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...crowd and forces him to raise his hand so they can take his son away. In the end everyone is killed, the Americans win, and they tell you how the Americans have counter-insurgency schools in all the military units. In the Marine Corps they have a sniper school. Oh yes, the scar-faced leader escapes like a coward and then they finish by telling you: "Counter-insurgency will pop up again somewhere until all insurgency has been wiped out to the last man and only then will we be safe from the Communist menace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A 20-Year-Old Medic Describes Army Life: You Can 'Escape' But You Can't Dissent | 5/23/1967 | See Source »

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