Word: united
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...captured American soldiers who were subjected to brainwashing showed more stubborn loyalty to their military outfit than to their own moral values or even their country. In Viet Nam, this knowledge is being applied by treating the battle-shocked man not as an individual but as part of his unit. Men like Major Joel Kaplan, 33, who heads the U.S. Army mental hygiene clinic in Nha Trang, recognize a number of stress syndromes that can tear the unit apart -and, in so doing, generate individual psychiatric casualties...
...these is known as the f.n.g. (for "f - g new guy") syndrome. Because of the twelve-month troop-rotation policy, each combat unit gets periodic transfusions of "new guys" unannealed by fire. The raw arrival is greeted with naked suspicion and hostility by a fighting force whose very life depends on group solidarity. Field commanders are now encouraged to prepare the new man for his chilly reception so that he will know what to expect. To abbreviate the period of distrust, the most seasoned veteran in the outfit is often made the new man's mentor and supervisor...
Another group crisis threatens when the fighting unit undergoes a change of command. This evokes feelings of rejection and anger that can, and frequently do, engulf the new commander. Discipline plummets, and sometimes the departing officer may himself hasten the process by shucking his role as leader, accepting his troops as equals, granting extra privileges and even hinting that the next commander might be something of a martinet. Such crises can be averted, or at least ameliorated, if the departing officer is made aware of the problem and advised to tighten discipline and control before he leaves...
...unit difference between the two figures is mostly due to different calculations of the amount of "doubling-up" (several students living in the same unit). The Design School group used a formula to estimate this, while the Planning Office mapped addresses of off-campus Harvard personnel...
...robbed banks and trains for ten years, killing men in most of the stick-ups, until their gang was just about wiped out in Northfield, Minnesota. With them stands William Quantrill, who formed a band of guerrillas, of which the other three were all members, and which, as a unit of the Confederate Army, sacked Lawrence, Kansas...