Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of the investigation unit, who asked that his name not be printed, emphasized that none of the students operating stills would be sued for the taxes on their unregistered equipment, or be taken into court...
...Albert C. Prendergast, a heavy-bomber pilot, went back to Dallas, to his insurance business and to his garden (he could make anything grow, his wife said). But on weekends, and whenever else he could, he headed for the airfield, flew long hours with a Dallas Air National Guard unit. When friends kidded him about being a weekend warrior, Prendergast, 34, would turn serious and say: "Weekend warriors are good fighting men and good citizens...
Last May, Texas' 136th Fighter-Bomber Wing, commanded by Colonel Prendergast, was ordered to Korea. It was the first Air National Guard unit of wing size to reach Korea, and it racked up a good combat record: 2 MIGs positive, 5 probable, 50 damaged...
Sometimes as many as ten men in a unit fell ill at once; sometimes only one man in a pup tent. The first symptoms are like grippe: headache, fever, aching joints and fatigue. The fever may shoot to 106°, the pulse weakens, and blood pressure falls as in shock. In the acute stage, tiny hemorrhages in the eyeballs make them bloodshot; other hemorrhages appear under the skin of shoulders and belly, and there may be bleeding from the nose, kidneys or intestines...
...appears now that Jordan will continue to use tackles John Nichols and Bob Thompson solely on defense, because Hank Toepke and Arnold Horween ran with the first offensive unit in yesterday's non-contact drill...