Word: noncombatant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officer in a Welsh regiment training for the invasion. Now he has been transferred to the offices of the British general staff in Whitehall. In that bureaucratic maze, Powell's khaki characters may seem less military than dilatory. But anyone who has inhabited the Byzantine labyrinths of noncombat wartime staff headquarters will recognize the wry truth of Powell's picture of intrigue, futility and boredom...
West Germany still has trouble keeping her planes in the air. Last week the crash toll of F-104G fighter-bombers-known as Starfighters-rose to 70 when a German navy lieutenant safely ejected after his engine failed near Cologne. The noncombat loss of so many planes compares in military aviation only with the Luftwaffe's own horrendous record in the late 1930s, when it lost 572 aircraft in 1938 alone, including the mass crash of 31 Stuka dive bombers that blindly followed a flight leader through the clouds and smack into the ground...
Race as a Crutch. Though Harry Truman ordered the military services desegregated in 1948, the Korean War found Negroes still serving in all-black outfits, or else in behind-the-lines noncombat roles. White officers-particularly in the Navy and Marine Corps-stubbornly kept Negroes out of top command positions...
...Witnesses, deems it a sin to have anything to do with conscription on grounds that each of its members is a minister and would be barred by national service from preaching; approximately 5,000 Witnesses went to prison rather than be inducted. Most peace churches, however, permit noncombat service, though some C.O.s refuse to wear uniforms...
Nonetheless, Schriever had his frustrations. Although he was a young bomber-flying colonel in World War II, subsequent noncombat assignments took him out of the running to be Air Force Chief of Staff. And like many other senior officers, particularly in the Air Force, Schriever had his differences with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Schriever believes that if the U.S. is to maintain its military superiority, it must sometimes gamble large sums on chancy projects. McNamara's philosophy is that the need for expensive new weapons and other equipment must first be objectively proved to his satisfaction. "I have tried...