Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Between the wars, the United States kept the ROTC-trained reservist as the key figure in the nation's defenses, maintaining the tradition of the civilian soldier dating back to the Minutemen of 1775. But the ROTC system was not merely romantic; it was also reasonably successful. When war came in 1941, a reserve of over 56,000 ROTC graduates was available for active duty to permit a more rapid mobilization of the nation...
...model class, consisting of sixteen area high school students, discussed a hypothetical dilemna of a soldier in Vietnam. Sent out on patrol, the soldier spots a peasant riding a bicycle in an area the villagers have been told is restricted. Since he appears to be innocent, though presumably he has been warned against entering the area, should the soldier shoot him, try to capture him, or disobey orders and ignore...
After debating the moral, legal, and military sides of the issue, ten students said the soldier should disobey orders, four said he should obey, and two were undecided...
...Citadel, Greenway decided to go forward with a squad that was assigned to knock out a North Vietnamese army machine-gun post. As the squad reached a wall still standing amid the rubble, a Marine stood up to look through what had been a window, and an enemy soldier shot him through the neck. Greenway and a medical corpsman dragged the victim to the company command post, and once out of the line of fire, laid him down on a road behind a burned...
Optimism is a sturdy soldier, frequently able to survive even against overwhelming odds. Last week in Viet Nam it joined the list of casualties. Not since the early months of 1965, when the Communists were on the verge of overrunning South Viet Nam just before the U.S. buildup, had the mood and prospects of the allies looked so totally grim...