Word: trooper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everything rusts or mildews," complained Navy Lieut. Commander Richard Escajeda, head surgeon of the marines' "Charlie Med" hospital at Danang. "The sterilized linen never dries. Bugs crawl into our surgical packs. Mud is everywhere." An earthier-or muddier-protest came from a jungle-hardened trooper in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, bivouacked with the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade. "Ya know, I been here for six weeks, and for five of 'em I've never been dry," he lamented. "If a man ain't wet with sweat, he's drenched with rain...
GENERATION. Old Trooper Henry Fonda finds himself bucking the winds of youth and anticonformity when he visits his newly wed daughter and son-in-law. Their Greenwich Village loft is already a fortress of individualism and, if they get their way, will soon be a delivery room for their at-any-moment baby. They get their way. The audience gets the laughs...
GENERATION. Old Trooper Henry Fonda finds himself bucking the winds of youth and anticonformity when he visits his newly wed daughter and son-in-law. Their Greenwich Village loft is already a fortress of individualism, and, if they get their way, will soon be a delivery room for their at-any-moment baby. They get their way. The audience gets the laughs...
...three bullets, Braveboy didn't dare call for a medic, for the North Vietnamese were prowling close by. So he crawled toward the sounds of fighting. When North Vietnamese approached, he played dead. He was once so close to the Reds that when they decapitated a wounded American trooper, blood squirted all over him. Crawling on, he made it to a small creek and hid in the elephant grass, wrapping his T shirt around his mangled left hand. Then, without food, without equipment, with only a few water purification tablets, Braveboy settled down for a week-long wait...
...first burst, close to the ground, caught the point man in both legs; then, veering upward, it ripped into the man behind - opening his stomach and chest and tearing off the top of his head. Another trooper, hit twice, man aged to claw his way almost to the cover of a tree. But bullets chopped him down just as he reached...