Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vacancies have existed in the unit since September when only 45 freshmen made applications to it. Since the war situation has grown more serious, many draft-conscious students have asked to be admitted. The Army has a staff of 11 men which can adequately handle the larger number of men. The Defense Department will not, however, give draft deferments this year to the newly admitted freshmen...
...enrollment procedure marks a change from the old policy of not admitting anyone except first-term freshmen into the field artillery unit without previous military experience or prep school R.O.T.C. work...
...tradition, training and spirit, the U.S. unit in Korea best equipped for guerrilla-style fighting is the 1st Marine Division (by last week well recovered from the ordeal of its fighting retreat to the sea in December). Recently, the marines have been pitted against the North Korean 10th Division, which had reached the Andong area, only 50 miles north of Taegu...
Valdo Magnani's closest friend was his fellow deputy from Bologna, Aldo Cucchi, in private life a surgeon who also specialized in studies of hemp workers' diseases. Cucchi had led an Italian partisan unit against the Nazis and Fascists, won his country's highest gold medal for bravery. In the Chamber of Deputies, he acted as a bodyguard for Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti...
After commencement in '41, the first step toward the future military setup at the University was taken, as the Army started a quartermaster ROTC unit at the Business School...