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The Navy and contractor Smith accused each other of fraud. The Navy won—until the President took a hand
The way of the reformer is hard. The way ofthat idealistic David who slings his polished stones at the Goliath of military bureaucracy is trebly hard. He needs a firm heart and strong friends. Franklin W.
A PORTFOLIO OF AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN
T he American provincials looked ridiculous. They had no military bearing. Their formations were ragged, and they argued with their officers.
As the fourth ice age of the Pleistocene epoch receded some eleven thousand years ago, an almost impenetrable forest of oak, elm, birch, maple, and pine trees sprang up between the coast of New England and the shores of the Mississippi.
Army newspapers in World Wars I and II were unofficial, informal, and more than the top brass could handle
In the summer of the year 1944, in a time of world war that is already history to my children’s generation but remains vividly personal to mine as a moment of (in retrospect) astonishing simplicity and idealism, I found myself pointing a jeep in the direction
The Corps is supposed to be tough, and is. This often confounds its enemies and sometimes irritates the nation’s other services
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