Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fire Discipline. In the face-to-face warfare of Viet Nam, the rifleman needs more and faster lead than any soldier in history. To that end, the M-16 has proved itself the best weapon available. Firing a light, .223-caliber bullet, backed by a magnum charge of gunpowder, the M-16 allows a rifleman to pack ten times as much ammo as his World War II or Korean War predecessors. Even on automatic, the M-16 delivers deadly accuracy over the ranges (50 ft. or less) at which most Vietnamese fire fights take place. While the M-14 delivers...
Soon after landing in South Viet Nam with a new second star on his shoulders, Marine General Lewis Walt recognized that the U.S. role there called for qualities of heart and mind that are not defined in military manuals. "In this war," he said, "a soldier has to be much more than a man with a rifle or a man whose only objective is to kill. He has to be part diplomat, part technician, part politician-and 100% a human being." As the top Marine in Viet Nam, facing an array of challenges matched by no other corps commander...
...Soldier's Soldier. Six weeks ago, with 76,000 Marines and 19,000 soldiers under his command, Walt finally closed with major elements of 71,000 guerrillas and regulars threatening I Corps. Though the Marines pulverized the Communist forces, they took high casualties. Walt's critics cited the U.S. losses as the reason for his surrendering command to Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr. Actually, it was known long before the DMZ battles that Walt, bone-weary from endless rounds of 15-hour days, was leaving Viet Nam at the end of his second year...
Westmoreland, in an unusually warm tribute at change-of-command ceremonies last week in Danang, pinned the Distinguished Service Medal on Walt's barrel chest and said: "My admiration for this man is without bounds. General Walt is a Marine's Marine and a soldier's soldier. He's not only big physically but big morally, a man of almost unique professional abilities, an officer of great courage and outstanding leadership attributes...
...transfer or inherit property, to hold public office, to testify, to serve as a juror and to take civil service examinations. Even after he pays his debt to society, a felon may be barred for life from all sorts of positions requiring a license or unsullied citizenship-doctor, architect, soldier, barber, druggist, liquor salesman, union officer, veterinarian...