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...sundown, after a daylong display of its skills, the newly formed division fell in on the Fort Campbell, Ky. parade ground. There last week it watched its commander, Bastogne Veteran Major General Thomas L. Sherburne Jr., receive from Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker and Army Chief of Staff Maxwell D. Taylor the blue-and-red standards of the famous "Screaming Eagles"-the 101st Airborne Division of World War II. In front of the reviewing stand perched a bald eagle, hastily acquired from a South Carolina zoo. Unused to the rocket blast and the plane roar, it had battered itself against...
...last week exhorted graduating midshipmen to avoid making "a fetish of tradition" and to remember always that the Navy, Army and Air Force "must think as a team, work as a team, and, when necessary, fight as a team." At Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, Army Secretary Wilbur Brucker overflowed with tributes to the "magnificent Navy" and the "great Air Force with intrepid pilots." Other resonant military voices joined Brucker and Radford in three-part harmony-but they failed to drown out the dissonant undertones of continuing interservice clashes over roles and missions in the age of the missile...
...Detroit, only two days before his Arlington speech, the Army's Brucker reasserted the Army's right (bitterly disputed by the Air Force) to the long-range ballistics missile, goaded the Air Force by claiming that the Army's weapons are superior because they "are not limited in their effectiveness by fog, rain, snow or any other adverse condition." ¶ In Akron, Assistant Navy Secretary James H. Smith Jr., on the eve of an abrupt retirement to private life,*refrained from specific criticism of the other services, nonetheless ruffled Air Force feathers by assigning to the Navy...
...Governor of the Virgin Islands, found Secretary of Defense Wilson announcing his opposition, Senator Richard Russell flying off to St. Thomas to advise the governor to defy his orders, NATO Supreme Commander Alfred M. Gruenther urging fellow officers to resist the project and Secretary of the Army Brucker contradicting orders sent out by Secretary of Interior McKay...
...Washington many members of Ike's own Cabinet had not been told. Defense Secretary Wilson was aware of the general outlines, but new Army Secretary Brucker admitted that it was news to him. Key members of Congress got a top-secret dispatch containing an outline of the proposal only a few hours before the President delivered it. It was handed to them personally by an Assistant Secretary of State...