Word: regiments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subject is the twilight of Empire. The year is 1878, but already night has fallen all along India's northwest frontier. Someone in the 20th Indian Light Cavalry is assaulting women. The entire regiment is in a flap. Surly, cynical Second Lieut. Edward Millington (James Faulkner) is accused of brutalizing comely Marjorie Scarlett (Susannah York), widow of a regimental hero...
There is a great deal of chatter in Conduct Unbecoming about the honor of the regiment, much stern enunciation of principles like "gentlemen do not question the honor of other gentlemen...
...June 1968 he was shipped to Viet Nam, where he served with the 4th Marine Regiment of the 3rd Marine Division. He learned to watch for tiny hints of enemy troop movement while on perimeter patrol at Khe Sanh, a lesson in alertness that may have paid its dividends last week in San Francisco. In December 1968 Sipple fought in "Operation Scotland II," a campaign against the North Vietnamese, and was medically evacuated. "I took some shrapnel," he says. "I was a pretty screwed-up guy both physically and mentally. I learned war is no John Wayne movie." Sipple spent...
...week, Socialist demonstrators had denounced the military leadership; the Communist Party had responded by summoning its members to a "state of vigilance." On the extreme left, flag-waving mobs marched to demand dissolution of the democratically elected Constituent Assembly. They were supported by hundreds of soldiers from Artillery Regiment No. 1, widely known as the most radical in the country, who had brought along eight of their menacing, self-propelled cannons...
Deadly accurate Communist 130-mm. guns had already neutralized Saigon's huge airbase at Bien Hoa, and SA-2 and SA-7 missiles were trained on Tan Son Nhut airport. A single regiment could easily cut off Saigon's sole escape route to the sea by severing Route 15, leading to the port of Vung Tau. "Every time we blink, the map changes," said one military analyst...