Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most CO's reject this interpretation. A sophomore CO pointed out that the Army Field Manual describes the primary duty of the medic as no different than any other soldier--to contribute to the victory of the command. "If I were a medic," he continued, "I'd feel obliged to aid the most seriously injured first, regardless of whether they were friend or enemy. The army doesn't allow that." Another CO said, "If I patch someone up just so he can go back and kill some more, I might as well do the killing myself...
...student puts it: "This war is different from the others, To want to be a soldier you've got to want to fight for something. To kill someone you have to see the situation in black and white. We just don't see anything to fight for in Vietnam--not with guns anyway--and there just isn't any black or white...
Although many of the draftees themselves wished to avoid the service before they were taken, they tend to feel once they are finished that those who were more succssful in bypassing it are somehow less patriotic or courageous. "We're creating a generation of professional students," says one soldier who dropped out of a southern university during his sophomore year. "These people who don't know what they want, and who keep on going to school to find it, would be best off in the army...
Fixed Character. Readers who experienced World War II and were directly, if remotely, affected by General Marshall's performance will be particularly interested in the psychology of the man whom Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has called "the supreme professional American soldier of this century." His character had long been fixed when Marshall became Chief of Staff. The interest lies in seeing it in action on a world war scene of inconceivable complexity...
...Always a soldier's soldier, he also had to make sense to civilians. In Henry Stimson, a lawyer and a courtly gentleman, he found a perfect Secretary of War, but by no means a complaisant one. Stimson and Marshall both policed the perimeter of their authority and never let develop the kind of abrasive relations that were common in Washington between politician and the military...