Word: troopships
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...blare of military bands and the skirl of bagpipes, a troopship last week steamed into Egypt's sweltering Sinai port of Tor. Aboard were 2,000 Egyptian soldiers, the first big contingent returning from the war in Yemen. Army Chief of Staff Lieut. General Ali Amer hailed them as "victorious troops who have achieved a 20th century miracle," to wit: "Snatching the Yemeni people from the pit of poverty, ignorance and disease and leading them toward the path of dignity and development...
...from the grey granite building. One of 30 tanks out front gunned its engine, rammed through the black wrought-iron gates. A few minutes later, a tired, slightly bowed man was escorted from the palace, plunked into a station wagon, and packed off to an island prison aboard a troopship...
...private). As a result, the nation still relies, as it did in the heyday of Empire, on British-officered native troops to help man its overseas outposts. Last week the best of the overseas hirelings appeared in Britain itself; a contingent of 1,200 Gurkha troops filed off a troopship at Southampton, to become the first foreign mercenaries ever stationed on English soil...
...Arrow Tattoo. The 32nd is a crack outfit. It earned its shoulder patch, a red arrow piercing a battle line, in the Meuse-Argonne during World War I. Its first casualties were suffered when the troopship Tuscania was sunk by a German submarine. In World War II the Red Arrow Division fought its way from Buna to Saidor to Hollandia to Aitape to Luzon in 654 combat days-more than any other army unit in the nation's history. Along the way its men won n Congressional Medals of Honor, 49 Legions of Merit, 153 Distinguished Service Crosses...
...READY RESERVE will be tapped for the trained men who are required almost immediately (such as troopship officers, Air Force cargo pilots, Army communications technicians). All Ready Reservists have served at least six months on active duty, now are obligated to drill 48 times a year, take field training two weeks each year. They spend the remainder of their duty period on ready status before being shifted to the Standby Reserve (and later to the Retired Reserve), from which they cannot be called back to duty unless there has been a congressional declaration of war or a presidential proclamation...