Veterans Return Home Share Viet Nam Wounds at Fort Benning
Four soldiers treated at Martin Army Hospital Ft. Benning recount injuries in Viet Nam after artillery and mortar attacks. Staff Sergeant Brougsard recalls a leg wound and bandage fears, Captain Lefebvre describes a neck wound and surviving blasts, Leavens faces malaria and a smashed knee, and Staff Sergeant Acosta endures a mangled arm from shell fragments.
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Viet Nam
Martin Army Hospital
Ft. Benning
Clarke Stallworth
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Columbus
Alphonse C. Brougsard
Gueydan
Louisiana
Frank A. Leavens
Realistic Survival School: Air Force Trains Escape Experts
At Hunter Air Force Base and Ft Stewart Georgia trainers stage a realistic POW escape course. Over 19 days airmen learn weapons, maps, compass use and guerrilla warfare theory before brutal field tests in a coastal Georgia prison compound and swamps.
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Air Force
4Th Mobile Communications Group
Viet Nam
Hunter Air Force Base
Savannah
Ft. Stewart
Georgia
Atom Arms Agency to replace mushroom emblem with blue shield design
The Defense Atomic Support Agency plans a new insignia with three golden arrows in a blue shield and a surrounding chain motif, replacing the mushroom cloud image as the agency maintains its underground and atmospheric test duties and weapons study roles. The change aims to soften image while preserving mission, with tiny mushroom club hints barely visible on close inspection.
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Atomic Arms Agency
Defense Atomic Support Agency
Earth
Defense Department
Joint Chiefs of State
Mueshroom
Indonesian Students Block Lenin Exhibit at Soviet Center
About 30 Indonesian university students armed with knives and clubs surrounded the Soviet cultural center in Jakarta to block viewing of a Lenin display. Soldiers kept guard as a three man delegation met with the Soviet cultural officer. the rest remained outside. The protesters demanded the Russians close the Lenin exhibit, threaten to sack the center, and said they would stay on guard indefinitely. The Lenin exhibit was expected to close in about two days.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
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Broussard
Louis R. Lefebvre
Bonners Ferry
Idaho
Ia Drang Valley
Lefebvre
Santa Rosa
Calif
Leavens
William G. Acosta
Gainesville
Fla
Acosta
Alphonse C. Broussard
Robert Hansen
Mendelson
P. O. Box
Tallahassee, Fla
Thomasville Times-Enterprise
Bob Baker
Courage Dee
Marine
Hinesville
API
Army
Marines
Washington
P Gon Atomic Arms Agency
Armed Services
Belk, Hudson
Thomasville, Georgia
Belk
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