Medina testifies Calley lacked leadership in My Lai mass killing
Montrose Colorado’s Medina on the stand described his view of Lt. Calley as an inept officer who struggled with orders during the My Lai operation. Medina said he lost control and that noncombatants were killed, while detailing his own actions, conversations with Calley, and potential responsibility.
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Medina
William L. Calley Jr
Kenneth A. Howard
John Johnson
Montrose
Colo
Calley
F. Lee Bailey
Ernest Medina
St. McPherson, Ga
Officials doubt quality of true volunteer army
Officials say less than one-fifth of recent true volunteers scored high on intelligence tests, prompting doubts about fielding a quality all volunteer force. They stress selective enlistment and note social acceptance must change, with a target of a practical all volunteer force by mid 1973.
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Washington
Secretary of Defense
Melvin Laird
ARMY
Lt Col admits false My Lai statement at Henderson trial
Lt Col Frederic Watke testified at the Henderson court martial that two days after the My Lai assault he reported atrocity claims but later signed a April 10 1968 statement saying a heavy fight occurred. He conceded the document asserted friendly and hostile forces engaged in heavy fire, though he said there was no indication of enemy action that day.
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Madina
Calley
My Lai
Medina
Meade, Md
Oran K. Henderson
Frederic W. Watke
Henders An Cout
Watke
Henderson
Henry B. Rothblatt
Charlie Company
George Young
Americal Division
GIs Seized in Saigon Drug Raid Name Camp Gassle in the Sky
In a Saigon area operation, 43 soldiers from B Company of the 169th Engineering Battalion were detained after CID agents posing as drug users infiltrated the unit. A large stash of heroin and marijuana plus drug paraphernalia were seized, with three men charged with narcotics sales. The raid targeted the isolated camp off Highway 20 near Phu Lam, about 65 miles northeast of Saigon, where Vietnamese workers and locals were suspected sources. The incident followed a three week sting leading to a rapid formation drill as authorities pursued illicit activity at the base.
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Saigon
UPI
al Mask
Fighway 20
169Th Engineering Battalion
Phu Lam
Amg
CID
Air Force transport crash kills three near Scott AFB
Three Air Force crewmen were killed when a US Air Force transport plane crashed into an unoccupied farmhouse about a half mile northwest of Scott Air Force Base. Lt. Kieth Pickett said the three airmen were the only ones aboard. The William Klotz residence caught fire but was unoccupied.
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O'Fallon I
Scott Air Force Base
Kieth Pickett
Base Information Office
William Klotz
Klotz
U.S. combat toll and casualties reported for week
US combat deaths totaled 14 last week, down from the prior week, with 19 wounded the week’s lowest in nearly six years. Allied commands noted 264 South Vietnamese killed and 508 wounded. U.S. casualties now total 45,501 since 1981, with 1,474 U.S. servicemen listed as missing, captured, or interned.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
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