Word: regimentation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less seniority (168 years) than any other Scottish regiment, and many of its "Highlander" troops come from Glasgow or London. Still, that has not prevented the British army's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from enjoying a reputation almost as fierce as that of the mountain lairds of ancient Scotland. Some of the kilted troops, in fact, especially when the skirling of the pipers is loudest, trace the beginning of the regiment to "the licking we gave the English at Bannockburn" in 1314, when Scotland won temporary independence. Last week Britain finally gained a revenge of sorts. As part...
...divided the area into six military subdivisions-one comprising Saigon and Cholon, the other five wedges pointing at the heart of the city-and parceled out their troops among them. Not all of the Communist units are at full strength, but each of the five wedges harbors an infantry regiment, an artillery battalion, four autonomous main-force battalions and guerrillas. Already inside the capital, say intelligence sources, is the so-called A2/C 10 Special Action Command of perhaps 1,600 undercover troops, including both longtime operators and men recently infiltrated...
Along the belt where the city merges into the countryside, the Communists have deployed the lightly armed 165-A Regiment, comprising six battalions of troops who will act as guides and scouts for regular forces flooding in from the countryside once the offensive begins. Farther out in the countryside-an area that they consider already "liberated"-they have ordered their forces to establish "G.I. killing belts" around U.S. installations. Near the tiny Vietnamese militia outposts, their favorite ploy is to use loudspeakers to sympathize with men "drafted for an unjust cause" and invite them to move out of the camp...
...awarded the Silver Star and Croix de guerre for his heroism in the trenches of France as a U.S. Army chaplain during World War I. Even before he came to Holy Cross in 1932, succeeding the late Father Francis P. Duffy (who won fame with the "Fighting 69th" Regiment back when that was an honorable number), McCaffrey honed his appreciation of law enforcement as chaplain to New York's Roman Catholic policemen...
...outset of the 1917-18 school year, Lowell declared that all students still at Harvard would be expected to list at least one military course on their study cards. Freshmen were permitted to take military science in place of any required subject. ROTC officials hoped to raise a regiment of 950 men and got 1028 Harvard enlistees...