Word: united
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reconstruction of the standard ROTC program is based on the idea that local situations demand different solutions. An all-volunteer Ivy unit will face different problems than a land-grant college, which has required ROTC. Hence, his solution claims to reduce the amount of on-campus time taken up by strict ROTC material...
...plans for Torch. As Supreme Commander Eisenhower's Assistant Chief of Staff (G-3), he showed such a gift for working out the tactical obstacles and logistic snarls of joint operations that he became a sort of permanent, rotating staff officer, got little chance to command his own unit...
...diverse, contradictory problems of cold-war alertness in the nuclear age. The Seventh has to be ready, perhaps for years to come, for instant attack from the nuclear-armed U.S.S.R. land and air forces poised across the border. It offers enemy nuclear missiles no good targets, encamps no unit bigger than a battalion in a single area. Senior officers roam distant outposts to make unannounced tests of how fast and accurately the outposts could report a Russian tank attack to Army headquarters...
Also constantly tested Army-wide, often at 3 or 4 a.m.: how fast each unit can be combat loaded and on the road toward prepared battle positions. Minimum requirements for each unit's mobilization of manpower: 50% strength in 30 minutes, 35% more in two hours, no more than 15% on leave at once. Yet in their drills the battle-ready battalions never roll all the way to their carefully prepared positions. Reason: in the age of tactical missiles, battle positions are secret; the Seventh wants no fixed Russian missiles zeroed in on battle targets...
...outstanding features of today's game was the play of sophomore fielder Tadgh Sweeney. On the second midfield until last Saturday, Sweeney's speed and blocking have earned him a permanent berth on the first unit...