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...Saigon command announced that eight Green Berets, including the Special Forces commander for all of Viet Nam, had been detained while the Army investigated charges of premeditated murder against them in the shooting of a South Vietnamese. The commander is Colonel Robert B. Rheault, 43, a much-decorated West Pointer. Also arrested were two majors, three captains, a chief warrant officer and a ser geant first class...
...Safeguard system had already been undermined by Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, who turned up to testify armed with a raft of charts and diagrams showing Russia's growing threat as an 1CBM power. When he had finished explaining them with the help of a pointer, Senator Albert Gore asked to borrow his "wand" and produced some homemade charts of his own. The resulting debate on "overkill"-nuclear capability beyond that needed to assure the total destruction of an enemy-turned primarily on the difficulty of determining a nation's future offensive capacity. Packard stuck...
...George C. Marshall. Claire Chennault, Curtis LeMay and William Dean, the Korean War hero, were also ROTC-trained. Currently, about one-third of the Army generals are ROTC men, including five major generals who are commanding divisions in Viet Nam; only one division there is headed by a West Pointer. Says Brigadier General Clifford Hannum, head of the Army ROTC: "The worst thing you could do is cause the Army to turn inward for its officers...
American colleges and universities have trained men for war since 1819, when a former West Pointer went up to Vermont to found a college (now Norwich University) where military instruction would be part of the curriculum. The idea gained popularity. During the Civil War, Congress voted to provide free land for civilian colleges that agreed to offer military instruction to their students. In 1916, this "land-grant" system of military training was transformed into the present-day Reserve Officer Training Corps...
Borman has been air-oriented from youth, when he built model airplanes and sold newspapers to pay for flying lessons. A West Pointer who opted for the Air Force, he earned a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from Caltech, broke an eardrum during a practice dive-bombing run and for a while was certain that he could never again take to the air-let alone fly to the moon. But when his eardrum healed completely, he resumed flying, and now has a total of more than 5,400 hours of flying time. Between training sessions...