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...training schools. The immense martial array is controlled by three main international commands: SACLANT (for Atlantic convoy routes), CHANCOM (for the English Channel) and SACEUR (for Europe and the Mediterranean). Behind it lies the long-range strategic air power of the U.S. Strategic Air Command and Britain's Bomber Command. The bomber force, with its necklace of offensive air bases from Iceland to Iraq, is not directly committed to NATO, but it is ready and certain to strike should NATO be attacked...
...Only Sleeping. Will's perceptive sergeant appoints him permanent latrine orderly. On inspection day, the colonel almost jumps out of his uniform when Will jerks the wire he has rigged up and a long line of latrine seats comes clattering to attention. Soon Will joins a bomber crew that is almost equal to him. The pilot, who once flew planes "that didn't have but one little bitty engine," becomes incensed when told two of his engines need fixing. "What do you mean, it's in no condition to fly!" he screams. "Don't you have...
...crusty old Andrei Vishinsky put it, "There has been a strange haste about this affair ... a sort of precipitancy." When Soviet MIGs shot down a Navy Neptune patrol bomber in the Japan Sea (TIME, Sept. 13), the Navy quickly announced (after sketchy interviews with only part of the loman crew) that the Neptune had not returned the Russians' fire. Later it acknowledged that the turret gunner had fired a short burst after the MIGs began their attack. The first Navy announcement placed the attack some 100 miles southeast of Vladivostok, but on successive days, the Navy changed the distance...
...over Iraq. Less than a year later, his younger brother, R.A.F. Pilot Officer Sir Iain MacRobert, 26, was reported missing in action over the North Atlantic. Stricken Rachel MacRobert made what she called "a mother's immediate reply." Enclosing a check for ?25,000 to buy a Stirling bomber, she wrote to the Air Minister, "I have no more sons to wear the MacRobert badge or carry it in the fight . . . but if I had ten sons, I know they would all have followed that line of duty." The R.A.F. bought the bomber and named it MacRobert...
...groups as diverse as college basketball teams, student civil-engineering crews and Air Force bomber crews, Fiedler found that an approachable, "outgoing" leader who gets too friendly with his subordinates may find himself no longer able to make clear-cut decisions. But an aloof leader may isolate himself too much from his key man (e.g., foreman, or top sergeant) and thus lose touch with his group. When this happens, the rank and file are apt to turn to someone else as an informal leader. Therefore, the most effective leaders according to Fiedler, are men who are properly matched to their...