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...show-stopper was boyish, bespectacled Representative Wayne Hill, 26, just honorably discharged from the Army as a sergeant. Still in uniform, he flew in from Will Rogers Field, Okla. to address his fellow legislators: "I am cautioned that I will be sorry [for my stand]. . . . I am just as willing to die a political death as I am to die in battle to preserve American freedom...
...Best Tradition. Smart and helpful, the Reserves are also self-sufficient. The New River maintenance crew, for instance, is allowed to handle up to 220-voltage electricity and performs the plumbing and carpentry chores in the women's area. Corporal Billie Holcomb, who has a Marine staff sergeant father and an Army sergeant husband in the Aleutians, is boss...
...Sicily, Messerschmitts circled a nearby hill, but Technical Sergeant Richard Redding, stringing wire atop a telephone pole and a perfect target, worked on. Someone yelled up from below: "What are you doing up that pole...
...Kuroki is a technical sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Forces, a qualified turret gunner in B-24 Liberator bombers, veteran of 30 heavy bombing missions against the enemy, survivor of the ruthless, costly raid on the Ploesti oilfields of Rumania, winner of two Distinguished Flying Crosses, wearer of the coveted Air Medal with four oakleaf clusters...
Floogle Street has become a part of G.I. lingo. A soldier sent on a sleeveless errand now calls it a "Floogle Street assignment." The sergeant who inflicts it on him is "flying Floogle Street...