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...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...
Steady Surveillance. Viet Cong guerrillas fired on two separate units of American paratroopers patrolling northeast of Saigon, then poured bullets into the MEDEVAC helicopter that swooped in to pick up the wounded-but failed to bring it down. Individual Red riflemen took potshots at passing choppers and reconnaissance planes throughout South Viet Nam, or chucked hand grenades at Allied positions...
...Africa,/ And I, of course, galloping right after him," the effect is quite other than intended. The image of the dynamic poetic dramaturge fades, to be replaced by that of another poet laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson, inflamed with patriotic ardor over the breakfast table and dashing off Form! Form! Riflemen Form!-to be published in the Times, please the Queen, and possibly encourage the redcoats...