Training For Viet Nam Riflemen Ready For Combat
Draftee infantrymen at Ft Polk undergo simulated Viet Nam ambushes and field problems to build morale and realism ahead of deployment. Instructors praise growing readiness, while critics say programs are too short and overlook practical survival skills.
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Louisiana
Viet Nam
Ft. Polk
U.S. Army
Marine
Thomas Mattison
Hackettstown
N.J
Pvt
Arthur Guerrero
Denver
Colo
Hal Moore
1St Cavalry
Korean Demarcation Line Becomes A Tourist Trap
Visitors tour Panmunjom and the armistice zone amid UN and North Korean checkpoints. Guides describe half in each country buildings and the mined bridge remarks while tourists snap photos and purchase souvenirs at the UN camp and nearby clubs.
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Panmunjom
Korea
North Korea
South Korea
U.S
U.N
George Hicks
Hawley
Texas
South
Local oddities and old military memories amuse readers
A mother discovers her two year old repeatedly uses a cracker machine at the auto license office. Police react to nudity debates and lightheartedly salute, while a former air corps recruit recalls a comical broomstick salute mishap at Fort Jackson ending in tears.
Handicapped Learn Speech Through Music At Wichita Institute
At the Institute of Logopedics in Wichita Kansas a music based method helps handicap children speak. A 9 year old boy Timmy showed immediate progress beside a grand piano as instructor Robert Ralstin used simple scales. Dr. Martin Palmer notes music uses a separate brain pathway to aid speech and aphasia. The campus, on 50 acres with 51 buildings, serves 500 on site and 1000 in 24 field centers, graduating about three people daily with a staff of 300.
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Wichita
Kan
Timmy
Institute of Logopedics
Robert Ralstin
Institute
Martin F. Palmer
Palmer
Kansas
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Nam
Veterans
John T. Wheeler
FT. Polk, la
Conrad Strawsberry
United States
Ft. Bragg
82Nd Airborne Division
Tention
High Point Enterprise
Eeale
Seoul
U.S. 2Nd Infantry Division
Freedom Bridge
Imjin River
Demilitarized Zone
Joseph Zito
Phoenix
Ariz
Armistice Area
Hicks
Neutral Nations’ Commission
Auto License Examiner's Office
Mom
Highway Patrol
U.S. Air Corps
Fort Jackson
John Wayne
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