Posted on 06/24/2018 7:27:53 PM PDT by eastforker
That’s quite a handle.
There was a time when citizens were patriots (serving in the military); not so much anymore. What, 3%?
Julia Childs was in the OSS and I believe it was Italy where she was based.
Greta Garbo while not in the military was a mathematician and developed a math method that she tried to give to the government for use in cryptology. The government was not interested then nor ever was. Well after the war, the math method was used as a basis for the machine language used in early computers. As she had earlier given rights to the government, she was never recognized nor compensated for her efforts when it went commercial.
The end of the draft was a direct result of our Second Great No-Win War (Vietnam) which was preceded by the First Great No-Win War (Korea) and has now been succeeded by the Third Great No-Win War (Afghanistan and Iraq).
Well, if you’re gonna nitpick, the rank of “airman” did not exist until the USAF was created as a separate force. :-)
I was actually wondering about that. So when it was the Army Air Corps/Force they called them soldiers and not Airman right? I will take your word for it.
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