Word: riflemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atassi, to protest Damascus' support of the guerrilla raids. Atassi had closed the Syrian-Lebanese border, stranding more than 500 trucks along the 68-mile Beirut-Damascus highway, one of the Middle East's busiest trade routes. Ignoring Helou's protests, Syria -or the fedayeen-moved riflemen, armored cars and mortars to the Lebanese frontier. At week's end some troops were reported to have crossed the border and occupied a village four miles inside Lebanon. The Syrians have traditionally been better at rattling sabers than using them, however, and nobody expected a full-fledged invasion...
...Bridge in Saigon, dutifully fills in MACV Form 10. He no longer cringes when his buddies rib him about the re port and his peculiar command-a laudable sign of self-control. For MACV Form 10 is the Geese Reaction Report, and Schreiner's platoon includes 40-odd riflemen and a gaggle of six belligerent geese...
...answer is that the armed forces are seriously short of riflemen. Nearly half of the nation's fighting men are in the Air Force (904,062) and Navy (748,762), and although a limited increase in the number of aircraft needed for logistical support of those 200,000 troops would be necessary, neither the Air Force nor the Navy would be sharply affected by mobilization. It is the Army (with 1,477,019 men) and the Marine Corps (296,837) that need new muscle. As of last week, both services were stretched thin, at home and abroad...
...case they should be needed. Police monitored the highways leading into Washington, looking for a chance to nip violence in the bud. All together, there were 8,500 men on hand to quell the demonstrators if necessary. On the Pentagon roofs, federal marshals, Defense Department guards and Army riflemen crouched uneasily, weapons at hand, radios at the ready, field glasses constantly scanning the ground below, while helicopters fluttered overhead with cameras clicking...
...draft dodger. If my country wishes me to serve after I have my Ph.D., I will be most willing to do so. But graduate students like me are not good riflemen and are intellectually and morally incapable of accepting orders without questioning them and pondering their implications. If the Army cannot beat the Viet Cong without putting men like me in the front lines, then I suggest that it will not be able to beat the V.C.s with our help. If we're that desperate in Viet Nam, then maybe we'd better pack up our marbles...