Word: 101st
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...morning on a warm Saturday. New York City is asleep. But the crenellated red brick armory of the 101st Cavalry Squadron on Staten Island is busy. Hundreds of men in Army greens and black combat boots load trucks and Jeeps with weapons, tools, radios, medical gear. At 6:35 a.m., a 48-vehicle column rolls out, past the sleeping homes of Clove Lake Park, across the Goethals Bridge and into New Jersey. In twelve hours the 101st will reach Fort Drum on New York's border with Canada to begin its annual two-week summer training as scouts...
Somewhere along Route 80, civilian life drops away. Instead of bus drivers or cops, insurance men or factory workers, the men begin to feel like troopers in the 101st Cavalry, a proud and dashing outfit that in 1916 chased Pancho Villa across Mexico. The horses were replaced by tanks in 1942, but a certain amount of cavalry elan persists. Thoughts of home and work are replaced by simpler concerns -food, a cigarette, a breakdown ahead. Vocabularies slide easily into the four-letter Anglo-Saxon mode. At dusk, when the group rolls into Fort Drum, the barracks area is like...
...101st checks out its 18 tanks. They are "Iron Coffins," old M48 Pattons, recently modernized with 105-mm turret guns and twelve-cylinder diesels. Crashing through trees and brush, the 54-tonners seem invulnerable. Tankmen know better; but they think they can shoot faster and straighter than the "Russians." They have set up camp at a tank range, miles of scrub and shrubbery dotted with pop-up silhouette targets that look like Soviet tanks, trucks and armored cars. Staff Sergeant Donald Fogal, 36, tank commander (foreman in an auto parts plant), and his regular gunner, Sergeant Ron Pospisil, 31 (Xerox...
Since his 1975 swearing-in as the 101st man to serve as a Justice, Stevens has brought a fresh approach to his work. On a court noted for its fragmentation and diversity, Stevens is the extreme case, a personal loner and a legal maverick. Yet he has won the respect of the other Justices for his originality and ability to find new angles on old ideas (he once casually asked a clerk to "rethink" the history and meaning of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause). Says one of his colleagues: "If there is any conceivable...
...President decided last fall to assign 100,000 men?basically members of the Marine Corps's 1st and 3rd divisions and the Army's 82nd and 101st airborne divisions?to a Rapid Deployment Force that eventually will be able to respond quickly to emergencies anywhere in the world. The force will be supplied by a fleet of 15 ships, most of them stationed near areas of crisis, and an undetermined number of new cargo planes probably based in the U.S. Total cost: about $10 billion. But the ships and planes exist only on drawing boards. The force is not expected...