Word: combating
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Striking from aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin and air bases in Thailand and South Vietnam, as many as 400 Air Force and Navy combat planes took part in the raids across wide areas of Indochina...
...brass is worrying about the U.S. Army Regulations as well. With the help of U.S. civilian lawyers, a few G.I.s in Viet Nam have seized on a little-known passage in the "Army regs" section on conscientious objectors and tried to use it as a legal way out of combat...
Last June the Supreme Court ruled that deeply held moral or ethical convictions as well as religious beliefs could be grounds for exemption from combat. Since then, applications for C.O. status on moral and ethical grounds have increased. Most C.O.s claim their exemptions before induction.* But C.O. applications from men in uniform are inching up, too: in the first nine months of the year, 820 G.I.s applied (v. 943 for all of 1969) and 235 have won C.O. exemptions (v. 194 last year). Still, only 36 of this year's applications for C.O. status have come from G.I.s...
...Change of Mind. Flores, assigned to the crack 101st Airborne Division last month, lost no time in applying for C.O. status. His superiors shifted Flores out of combat and eventually to the 101st's Camp Eagle headquarters, pending Washington's action on his application. Before long more than a dozen other G.I.s from Flores' battalion and other units arrived at Camp Eagle, all demanding C.O. treatment...
...changed its mind, too. According to the regulations. G.I.s who apply for C.O. status must be assigned duties that provide the "minimum practicable conflict with their asserted beliefs" until Washington rules on the case. The Army argued that such "minimum duties" do not require shifting a soldier out of combat zones, but that he can be given noncombat assignments in fighting areas. Accordingly, Flores and the others were ordered back to the field, where they "could be used to carry rope, extra water, whatever the company needed." In the end, Flores and two other G.I. privates, Frederick H. Miller...