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GITS UNITED
AGAINST THE WAR IN INDOCHINA

- Bragg BriefTs is published in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence and
the United States Constitution. It isa free press, published by active duty GI's
stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Bragg Briefs is dedicated to realizing
the vision of the American Revolution of libery and justice for all peoples.

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GlTs ed Platform

Realizing that words, even thoughts concerning the many problems that con-
front this nation todav are, frankly, of little importance, GI's United, in an effort to be
part of a national solution to these problems, lists a platform of priorities that must be

met if the ideals in the minds of men can ever hope to be realized.
A unilateral withdrawal of military personnel, arms and war materiel that ac-

tively, inactively or inadvertently suppresses the struggle for self-determination of the
peoples of Indochina remains the primarv issue. Without an end to the vain hone of mil-
itary triumph, without an end to corporate America forcing its markets of overabun-
dance, waste and greed on peoples of other nations, without an end to the much too
real misuse of Americans bv Americans, without the cessation of imperialism, the vast-

ly more important question of the survival of the human race cannot be reconciled.
U.S. foreign policy that supports cruel and unjust dictatorships only to ensure

the survival of the American economy and the corporate system must cease, and the

U.S. must begin to support peoplesT struggles for justice and liberation not only in
Vietnam but in nations such as Brazil, Argentina and Angola as well. U.S. troops must
be withdrawn from all foreign countries and an end to the use of Gi's against the

struggles of oppressed peoples must be realized. Indochina is the first step.

Then there are the worlds that seem to separate you and me - prejudice and
racism: personal, regional and cultural. The glorification of one human being over
another must be overcome not only on the city streets, but in our own backyards.

The unethical attitudes of business and government that exploit individuals and insti-
tutions must be ended through a more relevant education of the very basic human
values of equality, justice and the right to pursue happiness for all people. Closer to
home, in our military world we want to see an end to the harassment of GI's and a

guarantee of constitutional rights through a democratic army.
Of great importance is an end to the wanton destruction and pollution of the

environment by indifferent governmental and corporate policies with a re-ordering of
national, state and city priorities. We must cease to shuffle the responsibility and real-
ize that pollution begins at home...also ends. There can be no second thoughts.

We must go beyond our own selfish desires, beyond nationalism, beyond revo-
lution and seek to bring about an America where barriers to love and deep human rela-
tionships - assumptions of superiority - are replaced with the principles of equality and

fraternity.
WHAT WE ARE AGAINST

1. We oppose the U.S. government's attempt to crush the Vietnamese revolution.

2. We oppose the economic exploitation of GI's by Fayetteville merchants.
3. We oppose the economic exploitation of GlTs by the U.S. government which won't

pay GI's a fair wage, but which endlessly gives gravy contracts to war corporations.
4. We oppose the continued use of GI's against struggles of Americans fighting for jus-

tice - blacks, women, students, workers, etc.

5. We oppose the U.S. governmentTs support for the brutal wort less dictatorships in
Brazil, Greece, Spain, South Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Guatemala, tran, etc.

WHAT WE ARE FOR

1. We want GI's to be treated as first class citizens, both by the military and the civi-
lian communities.

2. We want GI's to receive full protection of Constitutional rights.

3. We want a society where barriers to love and deep human ralationships-the assump-
tions of supgriority between races and between men and women-are replaced with

the principles of equality and fraternity.

4. We want the United States to begin supporting the truly heroic revolutionary strug-
gles for justice in Brazil, Guatemala, South Vietnam, Angola, etc.

5. We want a country where the needs of people for decent wages and fair prices,
clean air and water, and a rational use of resources, overrules the profit instincts of

U.S. corporations.

6. We want a country where evervone has the same educational, recreational, and occu-

pational Opportunites that todav are the privileges of the rich and upper middle
classes.

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letters to the editor

+t7The editors have been recieving a del-
' uge of letters. Due to our desire to print

as many of them as possible, we request

that letters stay within the limit of 500
words or less.

CIVILIAN FRIEND

Dear friends,

General Hugh Hester sent me a copy of your
fine newspaper. It is very interesting to me as a Civ-
ilian to know that the soldier himself is finally con-
fronting the obsene camage being perpetrated by
this war, not only in Vietnam, but in this country

as well.

I would like to help you financially, but |
can only enclose $2. I am a struggling artist
and fighting Multiple Sclerosis to boot.

Your friend,
Alvena V. Secker

ARMY S OCIALISTIC?

To the editor of Bragg Briefs:

After reading Pete GorczynskyTs article on social-
ism, ITm wondering why he doesnTt go to Cuba, where
~a planned economy:has been used successfully.�
Transportation is available for the 90-mile trip from
Florida. Maybe he doesnTt want to give up what he
has going here.

DonTt misunderstand me, | am a GI against imperi-
alism and the war in Indochina, but I donTt believe
giving us a socialist government will solve all our prob-
lems. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was
formed as pure socialism, but I understand that some
capitalsim had to be introduced to keep their agricul-
tural production high enough.

Stop and think tor a moment and you must agree
that the Army is very socialistic in structure, and it is
not very popular, to say the least. Because of lack of
incentive, quality of services and goods produced is
low (for example, mess hall food). And you know how
difficult it is to get the supplies you need. I donTt think
we want to have the same problems as civilians that the
Army has now.

The answer to AmericaTs problems is certainly in re-

form, but not in such a radical reform as Mr. Gorczyn-
sky proposes. For example, giving our unemployed
citizens jobs in urban renewal would help solve two
problems at once. The money now going to Indochina
would finance the project. This much socialism is ne-

cessary.
There is no easy solution, but the level-headed read-

ers of Bragg Briefs can do better than to make this the
oUnion of American Socialist Republics.�

Kenneth Parthie
EDITORTS REPLY

Brother,

We'd like to direct a few comments to some techni-
cal errors in your letter which we:hope may lead to a
continued analysis of socialism and capitalism.

First, the Soviet Union was not o~formed as pure so-
cialism.� Any working, near pure, socialist government
would have to be something built over time through a
reconstruction and reorientation of the structure that

it was replacing.

In the revolution to replace the class structure of
Czarist Russia, the forms of Socialism originally inst-
ituted were truly an attempt at a peoplesT socialism
but over the years many incorrect paths were taken
and counterrevolutionary people were able to gain
control of some areas of the social structure.

Some of the errors were seen and corrected, but
but many areas of the political and economic devel-

opment of the Soviet Union have become unrepre-
sentative and unresponsive to the peoples needs.

Overall, the Soviet Union today is not a good ex-
ample of true Socialism, though it still retains many

good Socialist structures that can be used as examples
when you're talking of alternatives to areas of capi-
talism.

_ Secondly, we disagree that the United States Army
is at all o~very socialistic in structureT. The U.S. Army
is one of the most perfect children of Capitalism It is

a large mass of people controlled by a very small rul-
ing class.

The people who control the army have absolutely
no responsibility to the masses. The thousands of sol-
diers are used by the ruling brass soley for their per-
sonal enhancement and as a profit mechanesm for
themselves and the major individualists (ie, the Viet-
nam War, interventions in the Dominican Republic,
Panama, Postal Strikes, etc).

The lack of incentive and quality that you talk
about is very clearly the reaction of alienated people.
The soldier has almost no control over his life. Skills,
interests and emotions are all negated by the sterile,
beauraucratic mechanisms of the military. The ind-
ividual sees no ego fullfillment, no real rewards to be
gained, from either his peers or these higher up in the
class structure.

Most men feel that they canTt accomplish anything
tangible in the military, so since they canTt build, they
are forced into a very defensive psychological position.
This ego defense is what you see around you.

There is no building and brotherhood, because the
army today isnTt used for anything consturctive------

only as a destructive agent.

Wasteful, non-accomplishing, non-fullfilling jobs
lead to boredom, defensiveness, and alienation.

MAJOR INCARCERATED?

On October 27, 1970, Major James Chambers
Commanding Officer of the 82nd Military Intelligence
Detachment, received a call at his home informing him

that an enlisted member of his elite intelligence com-
munity had been arrested, charged, and incarcerated
for driving while under the influence of alcohol. Leav-
ing the confines of his home, where he had been in-
bibing several Manhattans, he and his wife proceeded
to the County Court House to attempt to bail out the
enlisted man. Knowing that he had consumed a con-
siderable amount of alcohol, Chambers had his wife
drive him to the Court House. After presenting his
credentials to the on duty deputy sheriff, the Major
was informed that the man he wanted was not there.

Somewhat of an argument ensued when the irr-
ascible Major insisted that his man was there. The
deputy retorted, oAre you giving me a hard time
boy?� Midway between the heated dialogue, a
burly deputy entered the room and approached
the Major. As the deputy came within close prox-
iminity of the Major he an alcohol stench on him

and quickly wisked him away and charged him with
being drunk in public. (Anyone who has the brass
bounded gall to walk into a sheriff's office in a deep
religiously conservative state while in a drunken stupor
should expect to be arrested--at least.)

Quite fortunately, the sixteenth century Latin

maxim, oNemo tenetur prodere se ipsum---or, in Eng-
[lish, oNo one should be required to accuse himself,�
occupied a very salient position in the MajorTs stup-
orous mind. Next morning the Major was released from

jail and returned to work.
Quite naturally, the entire 82nd Airborne DivisionTs

pyramid of command had heard of the incident and
the Major was soon before BG General Samuel Wilson,
Assistant Division Commander, making a full explana-
tion of his alleged orailroad job� and simultaneously
making an urgent supplication for mercy. Not wanting
to see the Major branded as ethically disoriented and a
public drunk, the pious General went so far as to ex-
ert his potent influence and mysteriously arrange for
a dismissal of the charge. Although no judicial action
was taken against the Major, it has been reported that
his recent move back into the confines of the military
reservation was prompted by the October incident---
an unexpected denouement!

It is paradoxical that General Wilson was so will-
ing to adhere to the presumptative innocence theory
for the commissioned malefactor when on the other
hand he would undoubtedly enact the presumptative
guilt theory against his enlisted oscum� who are in-

capable of providing a challenge toward their own

defense.

The 1970 breed of soldiers should not accept such
an iniquitous condition fatalistically; he should do
something about it, and the wonder is that there has
not been a major revolt before this. It is apparent that
what General Wilson, and the other up tight command-
ers, are so eager to do for the commissioned. GOOSE
they wonTt do for the beleagured non-commissioned
GANDER. The question with which the military man
of today must toil is whether ornot he can survive in
this mental backwash of escapism? We are learning
that good men differ on what constitutes the good.

You can have a perfect assembly of pieces in
your watch, but they are worthless if the mainspring
is broken. The concern is not about the various pieces
the individual soldier, our machines, our resources.

But we must desperately concerned about our main-
spring--the alleged leader. That it has run down we
know. But is it broken; is it broken beyond repair?
In the last analysis, ng question is worth more con-
sideration in the Arm, today!

Truthfully and respectfully submitted,

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SPIRIT OF |
REVOLUTION

To The Editor:

What has happened to this country or, more speci-
fically, what has happened to the spirit of the people?
This is a country founded by revolution yet the mere
mention of that word today is enough to have the
speaker classified as a person who is dangerous
unamerican, and probably a communist. Many people
believe that this country is in need of change, some
think that they can bring this change about through
mass actions and through voting, others do not.

Some members of this society, after seeing the
lies that are all around them, think it totally-im-
possible to change the system as it is today with less
than revolutionary means.

LetTs take a look at history anid see if these people

are justified by historic precedent. In 1787, Thomas

Jefferson, one of the founders ofthis country said,
~God forbid that this countryT... should ever be

twenty years without a rebellion.T Abraham Lincoln
stated that when a government becomes, in the mind

of a people, too.oppressive they have two alter-
natives: the constitutional right to change the govern-
ment by vote or the revolutionary right to change it
by rebellion. This latter case is clearly illustrated by
the Civil War.

During the War Between the States there were a
number of questions provoking bloodshed, the most
important was not slavery, as many imagine, but
rather the question of how much power the federal
government had over the states and in turn, over the
individual (slavery being one of the points of con-
tention; could the federal government make it illeg-
al for a private individual to own another person?)

Rather than submit to what was thought to be
unreasonable restrictions and limitations on state
autonomy and individual (slave owner) freedom
several states dissolved the union and proceeded with
an armed rebellion challenging federal power.

These are just a few examples of our American
history of revolution. More would be: the American

Revolution, used as an example by many countries to
justify their own revolutions; the Mexican War in
which American settlers who were invited to settle

in Texas by the Mexican government, overthrew the
Mexican authorities and, with United States troops

sent to their aid, established the Texas Republis;;
the New York draft riots of 1863-64 in which Irish
immigrants, who were too poor to buy there way
out of the draft, started a riot that took weeks to
put down.

These are examples, examples from our history
that show that-revolution is not of necessarily foreign
origin but is actually quite American. Why then is it
that those in society today that preach revolution are
looked upon as traitors, subversives in the pay of
foreign enemies, and totally un-American?

Our generation has been sent to school, told to
learn,told to think for ourselves, use our imagination,
help build society; now we are thinking and putting
these thoughts to use and immediately we are the
outcasts of society. Is it our fault that our govern-
ment has grown stagnant over the past years? Is it our
fault that the direction of our government is mov-
ing in is toward war, death, destruction, or world
domination? Is it our fault that this society is sick
and dying? Is it our fault that we can see no way to
change the course of society short of revolution?

Is it our fault that we are taught that American
stands for freedom while at the same time the
country is supporting a military dictatorship in
Greece, a militaryddictatorship in Cambodia, a num-
ber of dictatorships in South America, an unpopu-

lar, cruel government is South Vietnam?) Is it our

fault that we point with pride to our revolution and
say that all people can be free when we train mil-
tary officers in the armies of these dictatorships and
provide them with mney and arms to put down
popular uprisings against these unfair governments?

Can an election change all of this? How many of
of these have you ever voted on? Did you have a say
in sending troops into the Dominican Republic,
South Vietnam, or Cambodia? Did you vote to give
the president the power to press an unfair and illegal
*~war~ I know I never voted for any of these.

Can we not all agree that something must change?
Now we need only decide what must change and how
to go about changing it. The government was insti-
tuted to serve the people and it isn~t, it is serving
only itself, building its power and control. The way

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of rice. You captured an ammo dump and a supply depot.

to change is not truly open to all possibilities in my
estimation. When a million people were in the streets
November fifteenth 1969 to protest our presence in
Vietnam what did the president do? He watched a
football game on television and a few months later
sent troops into Cambodia. Mass non-violent protest
has been tried and ignored. The riots in Chicago dur-
ing the Democratic convention and the convention

itself served to weaken belief in the present electorial
system. What course does that leave open? I support

all those of you who still try these previous two

means but for myself, | believe revolution to be the
only way to change this sick society.

Charles P. Arnold

A DISSENTING
POINT OF VIEW

~The following letter appeared in the Fay-
etteville Observer. It is being run as an op-
posing view point.

To The Editor

Would someone enlighten these intellectual o~com-
mandos� of GITs United Against the Vietnam War,
that (real) soldiers are supposed to fight any and all
wars they are called upon to fight, on order of their
government. Not just those wars they happen to agree

on.
Soldiers of any army, regardless of their individual

capabilities and courage, are only as good as their dis-
cipline and the quality of the command that leads
them. The next thing these frustrated misfits will be
wanting, is choosing their officers on a nomination and
popular vote basis.

The Russians tried the all comrade army in 1939
against little Finland and were systematically chopped

to ribbons. They learned their lesson the hard way and

we now have a great deal of evidence in the news to
show that Ivan is ready to go anywhere, anytime, any-
how, against anyone, for any or no reason at all. All
his officers need to do is point him in thfe d

his officers need to do is point him in. the desired dir-
ection and oturn him lose�. "

If this new o~Action� army of ours is indeed so sup-
erior to the one I belonged to in WW II, how is it that
it canTt seem to function properly without the frills
and pampering of a bunch of kindergarten crybabies?
At least that osub� standard, griping army of the old
managed to return the odividends� expected by the
nationTs taxpayers, for his $21.00 a month per man
security investment. It won the wars it was committed
to engage in.

I propose that these proponents of GI individualism
be ounited� into special battalions and offered to
Hanoi on a 10 to | ratio, in exchange for Amencan

prisoners of war! In this manner, these disaffected
ideologists would have a chance to serve their country
honorably, while being on that side of the war they
so much want to be on.

HERBERT BRUCKER
(MAJOR RET.)

| REVOLUTIONARY
MANDATE I

these are not the times
to take your friends for granted
to assume they will always be there.

they may not be.

and if you wait
until the next time
to tell them that they are very special to you

you may wait until

someone calls you and says that
So-and-soTs body was found
beneath the bricks

of a dynamited building, or
So-and-so was blown

like water from a fountain,

over a midnight highway, or
So-and-so was shot while he slept.

therefore,
it is hereby mandated
(By the poets and artists and musicians,
who are responsible for the spirit and soul
of the revolution)
that when you finish this poem,
you are to call your brothers
sisters
and in your own way
make them know that
you love them,
that because of their love
you have become more
You.

Let them know.

Five minutes from now
you may never have the opportunity again.

Julius Lester

~ Constitution of the 714th

The following is the format describing the

Enlisted MensT Council of the 714th Prevent-
ive Medicine Unit. It was drawn up by a five

man committee within the council, unanimously

approved by fifty-four enlisted men, and for-
warded up the chain of command to 12th
Support Brigade Headquarters.

Purpose: We feel it necessary that an enlisted menTs
council be allowed to exist in any unit so that en-
listed men, as a group, can discuss common griev-
ances and effectively pursue redress of these griev-
ances through appropriate channels.

1. The Enlisted MensT Council will meet
once a month on Pay Day.

2. All men of the ran E-5 and below can
participate in the council. Any man in
the council is eligible for the committee.

3. The committee itself presently consist-
ing of 5 men, will serve as a vehicle for
transmitting the results of council meet-
ings to higher authorities, for transmit-
ting information back to the council,

9. Attendance will be taken by name at
each council meeting.

10. Normally attendance at any council
meeting will be limited exclusively to
men of the rank E-5 and below, but
if individuals not of this rank wish to
address the council, they may do so
as long as the entire council retains
the right to call for a closed meeting
when it so desires.

"eeeeeeEeEeyeyeye"

The resentment, low morale, and disrespect among
enlisted men today toward higher authorities is well.
founded and exists because there has been a com-
plete and absolute one-way street from the brass down
in making policies, deciding what is allowed and dis-
allowed, what is appropriate and what is inappropri-
ate. There has never been any effective channel
through which men could hope to solve a legitimate
gripe.

What the army has provided in the past in order to
give the semblance of a dialogue between brass and en-
listed men is the N.C.O. council whereby an individual
could make a suggestion or state a complaint to his
N.C.O. representative; the suggestion in our group
would get as far as the sergeant-major, where it would

Dissatisfaction on a particular issue or desire to see
a change in policy instituted may be supported by on-
ly one man, by fifty percent of the men in a unit, or it
may be supported unanimously by one hundred per-
cent of the men ina unit. The only way the sentiments
of enlisted men can be accurately assessed, however,
is by allowing them to meet as a group and discuss the
issues they wish.

In our unit there is probably a greater degree of
communication between officers and enlisted men and
probably a higher degree of respect for each other due
to the fact that each group will fisten to the arguments
and reasoning of the other and then take action on
these.

In other units this may not be the case. This insti-

tution has in it a goodly percentage of inflexible minds
that can only function in a structured environment.
These minds will resist change no matter how justified
it may be. If this is what men are faced with, then
they will be forced to go outside regular channels to
pursue change. Men have written in the form of peti-
tions and group letters to sympathetic Senators and
Representatives (and there are many) with much suc-
cess in the past.

Right now a lot of guys in a lot of units are strung
out on smack and going AWOL partly because no
structure exists through which they can voice their dis-
satisfaction. If you donTt have an EM. council in your
unit, get one. If you want help or would like to ask
questions, come to the 714th and talk to anyone E-5
or below.

be dismissed as too radical or not in accord with grand

and for handling administrative matters. old tradition.

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4. Any subject matter which has todo with
the policies governing our way of life while
members of the Armed Forces can be
brought forth for discussion in the coun-
cil meeting by any member of the council.

5. Any proposals for change of policy which
might develop in these council meetings and

be supported by a majority of its members,
will be written up and forwarded to our unit
commander including the number of members
in support of such proposals.

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6. The committee will keep a record of all
proposals and replies.



7. Information can be passed down to coun- 2
cil through the committee at each Pay
Day council meeting. Information can
also be posted on the enlisted menTs bul-
letin board and if a change is instituted

on the company bulletin board

8. The format by which the EM council
meeting is conducted as well as mem-
bership of the committee is subject to
change and proposals for such change
can be made at any council meeting.

Black Viet Nam Vet in Stockade

that he never made a mistake in remember- in Nam.
ing who in his company of almost 100 was
Or wasnTt there. He did make several mis-
takes on the stand and the prosecution had
to call him back one time after they had
gotten his story straighter.

When the whole story was out it
went like this. Wilson and_| Sg Elliott
didnTt get along. Because of his injury,
Wilson couldnTt work all the time, but
the | Sg would keep sending him on work
details. Anyway, Elliott doesnTt like pri-
vates, particularly ones that donTt put up
with his shit. So, on Nov. 4 when Wilson
was trying to go home on a three day pass
because of a trial (leave had been denied)
Elliott messed with him enough to make
him miss his plane. He then told Wilson

that the uniform he was wearing was im-
proper (because of the infantry background,
PFC insignia, and CIB.) ThatTs one charge.
So they get into an argument and Elliott
tells him to take off the illegal. Wilson
says he'll take off the jacket, but doesnTt
do it right there: thatTs another charge.

It turned out that Wilson was entitled to
the CIB and had been a PFC in the infantry

Military.....justice? Every EM knows
there isnTt any justice in the military. Maybe,
you figure, if you go to Nam and do the ManTs
dirty work for him, heTll treat you a little bet-
ter. If so, just ask Wilson Wright, Company B.,
82nd Avn. Bn. (TDY - Ft. Bragg stockade)

WilsonTs a wounded Nam vet. Last
,month he got two months at hard labor on
four counts, not one of which would have
been a crime in civilian life. He really went
to the stockade because battalion commander
LTC. Rynott and ! Sg Elliott didnTt like him.
Rynott turned down a request to release
Wilson from pretrial confinement because
he had a bad attitude and called black NCOTs
Uncle Toms. The commander also said that
there was some doubt in his mind whether
Wilson had been wounded.1 (His official
army record shows 3 weeks in an intensive
care unit and 5 months in a hospital for a
wound received in the RVN.)

But the guy who really had it in for
Wilson was his First Sergeant. HeTs obviously
been laying for Wilson for a while. He got up
on the stand and testified that Pvt. Wright

wasn't here on this day and that day and

But the First Sergeant isnTt through. The next
day he claims that Wilson missed reveille. HowTd
he know. He looked for him. Well the guyTs who
stand on either sid2 of him saw him. He was
standing in between. Sure he was late,
but he got there before the count was taken.
Charge number 3.

That wasnTt enough - now the pile on. Two

more charges of missing revellie. One for the
day after Thanksgiving when o~at least 7 guys
were missing.�
Seems nobody knew that there was going to
be a duty day that day until late Wednesday.
Then the following Monday. First the Set. -
thinks he called in and said he would be late.|
Next he thinks it was someone else.

And the big guns Failure to salute an
officer. The ultimate of crimes. Seems he
wus the only one in a group of 5 or 6 that
this officer, Lt. McGoey, got pissed at, al-
though no one saluted: And Wilson had
his hands filled. All this on off duty hours
in fron of the bowling alley. The sixth charge.

Now the clincher. Put on restriction to his

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HIGH WINDS

BRASS STRIKE CASUALTIES

... Out the show must go on

oOn December 8, Fort Bragg was honored with a
visit from Melvin Laird for its annual Brass Strike. |

was lucky enough to be chosen to prepare the area
for them. Raking, dusting bleachers; etc s !

oWe were told that if we were good! boys::and;

worked hard we could stay and watch .'Of course we
were too dirty to sit on théT bleachers or even stand

woods. From this point we were able to see the Drop
Zone clearly.

_ oStarting off the show was a mass troop-drop. The
winds were too high to safely drop personnel, but
they jumped anyway.

oFrom my vantage point, I saw two men land and

"faom an Torwayiew wiry
s0/Y Fineo Geaarni

.
:

oWith the help of an Air Force radio we héard a
call from the drop zone to the radio team in the blea-

a

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not get up. Other jumpers could b bendi .
behind them. So we were foréed to watch from the over them. ee se it engineer, eae medical ote
aie , - that the two men be removed from the Drop
oDEFENSE� ~SEC'Y LAIRD DEDICATED A SMALL ROOM IN THE PENTAGON FoR a :
"_ ; � oAfter a pause the control team informed the
REOTTION AND 2 wee NOT PROFOSE To SEPARATE MAN 'FoM GoD. : DZ team that they couldnTt stop the show because

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ce :
VG the planes were on the way, and therefore, the men

would have to wait.

oSo the show went on with two men injured on
the Drop Zone. Planes flew over, heavy loads were
dropped and war material demonstrations were put
on. When it was over everyone applauded and pre-
pared to leave.

oAh yes, but the show went over great with the
lifers. |wonder how many points the lifers got off this
one. Do you think those two men cared?

oThis is what I saw and what I feel. You will never
see this story in the PARAGLIDE (bad for the image
you know). But I hope it will be heard and I hope you
will see to it that a show never comes before a manTs

safety.�
coonnrtteseety : i: = se i rar ve |
bt er sail sep . i,
ae ee hae 4 oti Bi
North Vietnam has filed a formal brief with the ee foo Sah ae
United Nations listing war crimes committed by the = dil i ly ~ a | a ,
United States in both North and South Vietnam over oe : eee LO A aa Pe

the last two years.The brief, filed through the Hun-
garian Mission to the UN, documents crimes com-

mitted by aircraft in the North and police in the
South.

Atty. Gen, Mitchell said terrorists could be partly
controlled by rounding up the omaniacs� who use

bombs.

ae ee
ae Ihe brief alse
against peasants in the South, whose.
been destroved and whohave been forced into the con-
lcentration camps called onew life hamlets.�

The brief gives statistics showing the escalation
of bombing in the North, since the beginning of
Nixon administration. In addition, it accuses the US
of using anti-personnel devices, such as cluster bombs,

fleshette darts, and napalm, on population centers in
in the North during 1970.

te provincial town of Nam Dinh south of Hanoi. It was bombed on September 15, 1965

A kindergarten in th

, . Strangely enough, the US has not responded to
the charges.

WHO WE ARE THIS TIME!

Bragg Briefs is published by GITs United Against
the War in Indochina, P.O. Box 437, Spring Lake,
North Carolina, 28390. Meetings are held at the
Haymarket Square Coffee House and sometimes at
the Quaker House at 223 Hillside. Offices at Bill Talbert - 612th Qm Co.
Haymarket Square. Subscription Donation is $5 per Bill Carothers - 824th Qm. Co. (USAR)
year. J C Honeycutt - Civilian

Bill Robb - 28th C AT

Phil Frederick - 12th Support

Dick Olson - 18th Airborne

Frederick J Blitzer - MEDDAC Dental Act.
Mark D. Dyre - 28thC A

Bill McDonald --714th Pvnt. Med.

John K, Berk - MEDDAC Dental Act.

TRUE

oSeen from the air, we spell ~Yankee Go Home!T �

*
" Ky has grown rich and powerful
J § at Shy dah
: s s ot |
by plundering the American people.
/

1 - Mr. Vice President, how do you account for the 6 - Finally, Mr. Vice President, what about that old. fired as a result of the exposure from his post as dir-
$15,000 per week you personally receive from the smuggling rap? Back in 1964, when the CIA had set ector-general of customs in Saigon -- did he ever get
receipts of the Saigon race track? You have told us you up as the commander� of a fictitious airline to his old job back? £ °
your people are fully mobilized for this war; if thatis fly South Vietnamese agents into the North, you were These questions may seem lighthearted, but Gen,
the case, just who goes to the races every day so as to fired for using the planes to smuggle opium and gold Ky is not. He has grown rich and powerful from this
enable the track to show a profit sufficient to pay, from Laos. Whatever happened to the 250 pounds wat, not from plundering his own people -- whom he
you? (in 1967 Ky admitted he was receiving this of gold and the 450 pounds of opium whictr were has more. than once betrayed -- but ours. © c In a
money and said he used it from time to time to pay seized? And your collaborator, Gen. Loc, who was , cPher:

disabled veterans. He had up to that time, paid out *
the total sum of $65 for this purpose. : eee utto a



2 - Your protege, Gen. Do Cao Tri has been much " % Mig
praised as the oTiger of CambodiaT for his leadership \
of your troops there. What was his final explanation You K NOW WHAT we se
for the package he sent to Hong Kong earlier this 9p
year which was unexpectedly opened in customs and THE COMMONS WANT als, a
found to contain 71 million piastres in cash (official Isa
US. equivalent: $600,000)? Why would anyone want oe
to send that many piasters out of the country, where
they were practically worthless, unless to be used il-
legally - or by the enemy - for purchases back in
South Vietnam?
3 - Mr. Vice President, your old friend, Gen. Dang
Van Quang, is back in office as chief of intelligence.
When you and he shared power as members of the
~Military Revolutionary Council,T he was the com-
mander of the IV Corps until dismissed for corrup-
tion. Did he ever make restitution for the money he
took from his own soldiers?
4 - What about your other colleague from the old
days of the council, Gen. Cao Van Vien, now the
South Vietnamese chief of staff? Do he and his wife
still lease government-owned real estate to Ameri-
cans? Do they still own bordello hotels at the recrea-
se Pag tne xs tS ciduens, cf EAE | ER es ae ee See ee | A
5 - Mr. Vice President, why was your mother-in- law, To #
Mme. Hoang, who owns a string of ~resortsT in veral it
Saigon, permitted to be the sole bidder on a con- there
Struction contract at an air base to be used by the 4 } erefore
United States? urs. W
aint the
~sson O
All he
BRAGG BRIEFS ~
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ey sm
SUIT REACHES HIPMENT OF BF le
A NEW SHIPMENT ae
ill play
SUPREME COURT | =f

A suit against the Army by members of GITs
United to gain the right to distribute Bragg Briefs on
Ft. Bragg is scheduled for consideration before the
Supreme Court of the United States in the next few
weeks.

The suit against Ft. Bragg Commanding General
John J. Tolson and Secretary of the Army Stanley R.
Resor charges that members of GITs United have been
denied the First Amendment rights of free speech,
free press, and free association. These complaints
arose as a result of harrassment and intimidation of
the soldiers in GITs United by military authorities and

refusal by General Tolson to permit distribution of
Bragg Briefs on Ft. Bragg.

In May 1969, 18 members of GITs United filed the

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HAS ARRIVED AT &

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suit in Federal District Court. Later they applied for ntinue
permission to distribute Bragg Briefs on post, which iy, Wil
was denied with no reason given. CORNER OF BRAGG BLVD. & HAY ST. Pail car
In January 1970, the district judge, Algernon L. pray
Butler, denied the GITs petition and held that the INCLUDING Thr
action by General Tolson was constitutional. sp he Arr
The case was then taken to the Fourth Circuit THE ACK PANTHERS SPEAK Phillip Foner hat. A
Court of Appeals, which also denied the GITs request - endin;
for an injunction against the Army. However, the THE LITTLE RED BOOK Mao Tse Tung wo mc
court did send the case back to the district court, iott wc
where General Tolson will soon be required to give THE RIGHTS OF MAN Thomas Paine tockad
his reasons for denying GITs United the right to dis- Wilso
tribute Bragg Briefs on Ft. Bragg. THE MOLLY MCGUIRES Anthony Bimba _yne of '
This action by the appeal court is a victory for GITs oF cour
United. Nevertheless, the attorneys for GITs United VIETNAM WILL WIN Wilfred Burchett uys in.
Leonard Boudin of New York and Laughlin McDonald or fo
of Chapel Hill, N.C., decided to go to the Supreme eg a
Court, which will decide shortly whether or not it vay
w''l hear the case. age
Said the lawyers in the writ to the Supreme Court Ney ri
~At stake here is the right of million of our citizensT pth
to continue to exercise their First Amendment tent wi
freedoms after military induction, to speak, publish, nemy.
associate together and disseminate their views on ~ighting
matters of governmental policy.T jen of

rill.

My LaiGI
Signs

Confession

In a signed confession read to the court at Fort
cPherson, Georgia on January 8, Sergeant Charles
utto admitted what he did at My LaiT three years ago
as oMURDER�,

On the day of the My Lai operation, Hutto said in
¢ statement, oThe order came from the Company
ommander Capt. Ernest L. Medina to kill the ani-
als, destroy all of the food and kill all the people.�

oI saw people trying to hide. Some were running.
»me were standing. We opened up. It was Murder!�

(WHCK SPIRO! SLUG HER WHILE IL GRAB THE BooK 17�

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% GITs United has the people, the information an

s: the contacts to help their brothers and sisters in the
=: Military struggling for their rights. Conscientious Ob- #
sz jector applications, legal problems, Article 15 proceed-#
ee ings, Congressional inquiriesT, and general harassment
o¢ problem help is available all the time from GITs United
oand the staffs at both Haymarket Square and the

BS
% Quaker House.
: The only way things are going to get better in the

#3 military is by people making them happen. The man#
#% isnTt going to give you anything that will make yous:
% less able to be used by him. You've got to stand up#
oi for your rights, and thereTs a lot of help creat
zs right here in the Bragg area. we
% Come down to Haymarke: ov the Quaker Houseg
#: any afternoon or evening for any heip you need, or tox
z: Offer any help you can give. The only way to dos
Be togeent: i

SERRE SESE PSS eR

| Nadia ee
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Sexual Self Determination

To the straight (non-homosexual) community,
veral important facts: There will be no revolution
there are alienated factions of brdthers and sisters:
erefore, you né@d gay support as much as we need
yurs. We are all fighting the same enemy, and we all
ant the same Revolution.

~sson One in Re-Education

All homosexuals are not perverted old men, trans-
Stite ~drag queensT or limp-wristed hairdressers. ,
Most homosexuals are between the ages of 16-35:
ey smoke dope, hate pigs, the Vietnam War, and
O.T�,�.=g0-to colleges (yes, even high schools!),
ear long hair, are teachers, administrators and foot-
ill players.

praying to Tinkerbell.
"There are female homosexuals who are very beau-
tiful. We comie in all sizes, colors, religions and na-

tionalities.
Every homosexual is not out to suck your cock or

rape you (We are probably more selective about sex
partners than most heterosexuals).

We are not all hung up on our mothers (or fathers)
and we do not hate the opposite sex.

DonTt-get paranoid, but weTre all around you - and
we are going to become more and more visible.

Love is a very beautiful feeling, and important to
EVERYONE: If we cannot love and relate to people
whom we choose, then you are denying and destroy-

We will not disappear by closing your eyes and ing a part of us. And the death of every gay brother

yntinued from Page 4)

iy, Wilson is charged with breaking that re-
riction several hours after he was admitted
» the stockade.

_ Three of the charges are thrown out. Even
he ArmyTs perverted logic couldnTt justify all
hat. And the military judge recommended sus-
ending the sentence (after all Wilson only has
wo months left in the Army). But LTC. Ry-
1ott wouldnTt hear it and it was off to the

tockade.

Wilson WrightTs case is not an isolated one.
_ ne of WrightTs friends, also a Nam vet. was up
dr court-martial a few days later. Two other
uys in the company have been on restriction
or most of the past month.

Lifer harassment is going to increase as more
nd more guys stop bting good, unthinking
ddiers. Justice will come to the military.
then the pegple who are waking up to what
hey are being used for, take control of their
wn lives. There wonTt-be any petty-harassiment ..
ent when the people's army fights the real
nemy. That's because we'll know why we're
/ghting then. Wilson Wright and some of ttre
Jen of B Company 82nd Avn. Bn. certainly
rill.

or sister who, after finally spending the last sleepless
night, or lonely weekend or crying the last tear, say
fuck it all and kills himself, must be on your con-
science. ;

We must live in your political and social frame-
work,Tby your rules (until we change them), but if
you support us, then our liberation will be that much
easier and more justified. Next time you rap with
words like: brother, love, peace, or happiness, think
what each one means to everyone, not only to a few
chosen elite - then do something about the fucked up
world we live in! Above all, try and forget that we
are homosexuals - look at our minds, bodies and
work - give us the chance to help*you understand
what we are.

Haymarket Square.

PRESENTS THE An inquiry into U.S. Military Policy in

} Indochina '
BI A A : k Bl RD WHEN: January 31, February | and 2, 1971.

WHERE: Howard JohnsonTs New Center Motor

Lodge, Detroit, Michigan.
If you have testimony to offer, Please contact:
Winter Soldier Investigation, 967 Emerson Street,

or call collect - (313) 822 - 7700

ERE To ee eT
Gi TOLL: 347,664

The following U.S. casualty figures for South-
east Asia are based on U.S. government statistics.
They are lower than U.S. casualties reported by
the liberation forces. The figures are from Jan. 1,
1961 to Dec. 19, 1970. Figures in parentheses are
for the week Dec. 12 to Dec. 19. Killed: 44,167

(23); o~Non-combatT� deaths: 8990 (46):

Wounded: 293,077 (160); Missing, captured:
1430.

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