Word: reservists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Souther left the Navy in 1982 to study Russian literature at Virginia's Old Dominion University. He also worked as a reservist at the Atlantic fleet intelligence center in Norfolk. He was assigned to a laboratory processing satellite-reconnaissance photos and also might have been privy to sensitive communications intercepts. The investigation into his ex-wife's allegations was reopened in 1986, and after questioning by the FBI, Souther defected. In spite of his warm reception by the KGB, his marriage to a Russian and the birth of their daughter, he was not happy in Moscow. "I haven't found...
This is the third day of Gunsmoke, a bombing contest held every two years at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Afterward, the Air Force will name its "top guns" -- an individual pilot and a high-scoring team from a field of 90 active-duty, reservist and Air National Guard pilots flying in from bases as close as Colorado and as distant as Korea. Much of the costly $1.2 million exercise is calculated to impress Congress. It provides comparative statistics measuring the high-tech F-16 against older planes such as the F-4s, A-10s and A-7s flown...
...Gunsmoke, it is hard to imagine tact. Scriptwriters for Hollywood's Top Gun didn't exaggerate. "I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot," says New Orleans Reservist and Viet Nam Veteran Major Craig Mays, 41, a burly A-10 pilot with blond hair and a Kennedyesque smile. "I'm going to be one until they take the uniform off my cold, dead body." The major's call sign is Darth Vader. Reservist Lieut. Colonel John Haynes, an Air National Guardsman from Georgia, was an F-4 "gib" (guy in back) in Viet Nam. He happily recalls "trolling" Haiphong...
...kibbutzim, but last year the increased number of participants suggested a greater need for central organization and efficiency. Consequently, the volunteers this year will all spend their month at Army reserve bases through out Israel Each volunteer saves the Israeli government about $600, because each visitor frees up a reservist for other work or active duty...
...work week consists of a steady eight-hour day, five-days-a-week schedule. If the volunteer has no Isreali relations, he spends the Sabbath with the family of a reservist. A Half-day each week goes to travel, and two stops are absolutely required: the Wailing Wall and the Holocaust Museum. In addition, many groups visit other historic sites and listen to soldiers speak about their war experiences. The army provides the transportation...