Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COMRADE SOLDIER (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.) takes a trip behind the Iron Curtain to examine the life and training of a Soviet army recruit and finds some amazing differences between today's G.I. Joe and his Russian counterpart...
...least, heroism leaves a hangover of dauntlessness. Most of the wounded men insisted-some for as long as two days -that they could return to their units immediately. When a doctor told one man with a missing toe that his leg would not have to be amputated, the soldier smiled. "Great," he said. "I can go right back to my squad." Almost all of the victims were able to toss off nonchalant quips about their plight. In a Danang hospital, an interviewer asked an amputee what had happened to him. "Some bastard stepped on a mine," the soldier glowered. From...
Yadin plans to clear out the shaft, install guard railings on the stairway and restore the entire waterworks system. 'We will not need the water for siege periods," says the soldier-archaeologist confidently, "but it will come in handy for tourists and visitors...
...majority stockholder, Gene Autry. Reddin's prime target was the dissidents: "I am fed up with the militant, regardless of color or political persuasion, who is constantly on the attack. The promoters of urban guerrilla warfare are as much the enemy of our society as the soldier on a foreign battlefield...
...green firefighter waiting on a wilderness airstrip for a helicopter ride to a fire has a lot in common with a soldier manning the trenches. He realizes that a clumsy bureaucracy has plucked him out of his familiar city life and pumped him full of tales about his opponent's evils, but his training seems suddenly inadequate. He is defenseless, and his overriding concern becomes to pull out of this latest adventure in one piece...