Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Army officials announced yesterday that the Army would call into actin military service almost all the Reserve Officer Training Corps students to be commissioned into the Army Reserve this spring. The ruling affects all seniors in the College's unit...
...tenth of a shake, but a more picturesque name was suggested by Dr. J. W. Keuffel (then a student at CalTech). Since this is very nearly the time taken by light to travel twelve inches, he proposed that it be called the "lightfoot" by analogy with the common astronomical unit, the "light-year"-which is, of course, a measure of distance and not of time...
...yards in front of the U.N. lines. A Korean farmer who crossed to safety in allied territory had told where the plane was, said that it had evidently crashed months before. A team of the U.S. Army's Graves Registration Service, covered by riflemen of the nearest combat unit, went out into no man's land to find the wreck. They found it-a jumble of twisted and melted metal. There were no dog tags, and nothing was left of the pilot but a charred skeleton...
...last week, the plane had been identified as a light L19 spotter, and in the G.R.S. laboratory at Kure, Japan, the pilot's skeleton had been assembled, his height determined, dental chart plotted. If the data obtained from this work checks with a name listed on a unit roster, another U.S. fighting man's name will be transferred from "missing in action" to "killed in action." In the fighting lull, the unsung men of Graves Registration were busy trying to bridge the gap between the 11,000 U.S. troops listed as missing, and the mere 3,000 names...
...bullet had creased it, but the German supply system was not up to replacing his torn pants. Private Schleicher, turned down by his sergeant, pinched a pair for himself from the quartermaster's store, and went into battle again. In the midst of the fray he lost his unit, got back to it a week later, just in time to be arrested for pants-stealing. To make a good trial, a new charge was added: desertion. Private Schleicher, duly court-martialed, was resigned to getting five years in prison, when the Russians stepped in, shipped him off to Siberia...