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BRAGG BRIEFS
P's UNITED Against the War in Indo China
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and the Constitution of the United States. It is a free press published by
active duty GI*s stationed at Fort Bragz,
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On Saturday May 16th,
largest anti-war demonstration in North Carolina historye Over 4000
persons = students, police, MI, a few Nixon loyalists, and 1,0C0-plus
Gis =
Rowan Street Park was the scene of the
came to witness GI's United's Counter=-Armed Forces Day rallye
The rally was in concert with a nationwide GI protest movement
centered on discontent with the IndocHinese war and a national asser-
tion that
GI*s will exercise First Amendment suarantees.
Brage*s was the largest in the country, and remained very peace-
INV ASION !2!
Following the May 16 rally to
end military oppression and U.S.
involvement in Indochina, Rennie
Davis, Jane Fonda, Barbara Dane,
and Mark Lane oinvaded� the basic
training center here at Ft Bragg.
Civilians and GI's who attended
the rally also took part in the
so-called invasion, covering all
major units on the poste
The idea behind the invasion
was to communicate with GI's and
Sa banat informing them of their
ights and enlisting aid to help
stctian the military war machine.
Leaflets and other anti-war, anti-
military literature were distrib-
uted to the GI*s on post and many
rap sessions were held. The res-
ponse and enthusism were tremen-
dous, as was the effect on the
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ful throughout. Fear of violence
had prompted the military author-
ities to cancel Armed Forces Day.
Jane Fonda, Mark Lane, and
Rennie Davis were featured speak-
ers along with folk singer Barbara
Danee GI's from Fort Bragg, John
Vail, Hal Noyes, and Vern Alexan-
der also spoke.
Miss Fonda in a fiery, emo-
tional tirade lashed out against
the Cambodian invasion and prais-
ed the ousted Prince Sihanouk.
"He had established a succesful
Buddhist socialism in Cambodia,
when all the countries were cor-
rupt, were in war, were in finan-
cial crisis, Cambodia had known
9 years with no Wareee and Sihan-
ouk was building hospitals, uni-
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North Carolina and dedicated to
to the current military and economic
fod
Free to Servicemen
STRIKE
do it!
Cn kay 16th, GI organizations
around the country announced what
is to be called a GI strike. The
tactic of the strike is to organ-
ize, through legal means, a work
Slowdown.It will not formally ad-
vocate that anyone break any law.
To the contrary, it will be an
effort to enforce every rule and
regulation in every situation in
which it might be applied. oWe're
going to follow the rules so
close that the rule following and
the law and order and the paper-
work is going to paralyze this
motherfuckin*® war machine.�
There are innumerable, largely
unenforced, regulations which can
be used to the GI's advantage and
to the Army's disadvantage: bond
turn-ins, 1G complaints, congres-
sionals, applications for classi-
fication or discharge as conscien-
tious objectors, changing bene-
ficiaries on life insurance pol-
icies to anti-war organizations,
and so on.
The strike will formally begin
on July 1st. However, as a pre-=
iiminary action, an effort is be-
ing made around Fort Bragg to
encourage soldiers to turn in
their savings bonds. Savings
bonds are war bonds. Bond turn-
ins are unquestionably legal;
harrassment by commanders over
allotments for savings bonds is
absolutely forbidden.
bonds first
Now let*s talk about another
way our benevolent government has
decided to use us against ourselv-
es. There*s a lot ot sentiment in
the Army against the Indochinese
war, whether it's a guy who just
doesn*t dig the idea of American
imperialism, or feels essentially
cpposed to genocide; or whether
he just plain doesn't want to get
himself killed in some Asian
Swamp nobody ever heard of ten
years ago.
sure, 2 whole bunch of G.I.'s
have no use for the mess our gOovV=
ernment has gotten us into over
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June 1970
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WHO CARES?
I arrived in Vietnam on the
lst day of March 1969 and from
the day I got there till the day
I left, it was nothing but trick-
ery by the Arnye The first thing
that in a way started all this
was a guy - just another GI who
got a letter from home saying "
that his girl was going to have
his babye So he did what is com-
mon = he started to go to people
and pleaded for some way to go
home and get married so his girl
wouldn't have the baby out of
wedlocke But would anyone listen?
Hell noe He did everything by the
books, but when it came to what he
wanted the answer was still ono�.
But he still tried for the next
three dayse His questions all
turned to "no", so he answered
them his own way with an H-16 and
4 shells through his head. Who
was he? Just another GleeeBut who
was to blame?
During the following months
changed one way then another. But
this was a real change. ily unit
was going to have an IG. An IG
inspection in Vietnam! Not an ev-
ery day thing for a combat zonee
The IG went real well. All the
companies passed with flying co-
lorse Barracks and motor pool
were real goode Then, they said,
if anyone has a complaint today
you can talk to the IG. Well a
few people did. A few people had
their bitches about why haircuts
and clean shaves, but one guy had
a different storye Why is there a
290m pan, batteries, and hoods to
5-ton trucks buried in the motor
pool of D company 36th Engineers.
Well this the man found hard
to believe, so he got the command-
ing officer and the man with the
mouth to investigate. The man
with the story pointed to where
the bulldozer should start dig-
ginge After about five feet of
dirt was removed the colonel
thought boy am I safe. Then about
a foot later the bulldozer start-
ed bringing up hunks of metal.
The light colonel looked like he
had just lost his best friend.
That was dragged out for
months to follow. And still it
48 pending results. And so is the
Gel.-who threw the gernade at his
First Sergent. His first sergent
pestered and rode him so much
this man went temperaraly insane
and one night while they were
having a uso show threw a gernade
at his first shirte But ro-one
then asked whye Two other G.Ie*s
were given 212 discharges from
his company because they would-
n*t play his game. They were
real bad weren*t they? Then how
come no one asked any questions
when the first sergent was re-
lieved of his position and sent
to Long Binh for a psychiatric
evaluation after he almost kill-
ed a friend of mimee Who was he?
Just another "leader"!
The things that followed in
the following months were: A
man from the 7/1ist Air Cav. got
on top of a water tower and
started shooting his M-16. He
didn*t shoot any one luckily. But
he still got up and showed some-
one he had feelingse Who was he?
WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT
The day started out like any
other day in Vietnam - an X mark
on the calender, a curse at the
incessant coughing of a swarm of
choppers, assaulting mind and
body like an unending bummer, a
quick thanks, Lord, for another
night without incoming. But this
day would be different from the
others, made different by a let-
ter, a boy, and a picture on the
wall.
The letter was from my mother,
a good mother as mothers 70 = one
of the 500,000 concerned mothers
who write to their sons across
the ocean. The letter tried to ex-
plain why my mother was a member
of the "Silent Majority�. The
reasons given were good ones,
valid not only to her but to many
Americans: the carpeting was bad,
the house needed redecorating,
plans were under way for celebra-
ting the festive holidays fast
approaching. She did not have any
answer to Vietnam, and with so
many important things to worry
about she just didn't have time
to look for them.
"The president has more infor-
mation than I do", she said, oso
I still just have to go along
with things as they are.�
The boy was 17 or 18 and
frightenede Blood was being
forced into his left arm from
which it coursed thru his heart
and out the torn vessels of his
shattered right arme Shrapnel had
replaced the youthful flesh of
his right side from neck to heel.
His convoy had been hite oonly
one vehicle", I was told later.
"T hat convoy going thru every
week has a tremendous psycholog-
ical effect on the local gooks."
And what of the psychological
effect on the boy with the shat-
tered right arm? Who cares! He
will cet his Purple Heart and be
forever remembered on that vast,
ever-changing scorecard which
staff officers use to entertain
visiting brass. oNovember 22,
1969: WIA-1."
o"T*l11 just have to go along
with things as they are.�
I put her letter down and
stared at the next yeare A vague
likeness of a face etches itself
Slowly on my consciousness, a
shadowy figure in black, drawn as
a self-portrait by my three year
olde Her two sisters remember
Daddy as the man in the pictures
from Nam
Just another Gele but how about
the E-6 sergent who got drunk one
afternoon and went down town and
stayed all night. He was supposed
to be working. He started to
raise hell with the MePes and all
he got was 14 days restrictione A
Gel. PFC did almost the same
thing but all he got was a
General Courts Martial and 6
months confinement at hard labor.
Who was he?
Now comes the reason for me
writing all of this. A friend of
mine Sgt. Bill Ruff. Sgt. Bill
Ruff was a great guye He could
talk and comunicate with the guys
who worked for him, and he wasn't
proude He*d get down and work
right along with everyone else at
a jobe But he didn't raise hell
with anyone. And he didn't suck
ass with all the lifers. So he
was worked on from the chief
honcho all the way down the line.
The sergent major was always
yelling for some reasone Even the
first sergent,but one morning the
man had a shake downe The Major
himself shook down Sgt. Ruff.
Yell after the inspection Set.
Ruff was sort of watched because
the man had found two tablets of
Somesort and they had put a check
on them to find out what it was.
But on the 26th of December it
was too late Set. Ruff took -his
own life with a gernade.e Then all
was Stoppede Some people said he
was high on grass the others said
it was a bad tripe But
*onestly he was as straight as
daye But the two tablets were LSD
that they found. Who was he now
just another G. I. dead *rom Nam.
Mommy had placed all over the
housee But she remembers when her
first letter came from Daddy -
she tore it into little pieces
and threw it away. She remembers
the day Daddy turned his back on
her and flew off in the airplane;
and she knows Daddy doesn't love
her any more because he never
came back to play with her.
I looked at the letter again.
"Stay calm, don't let this thing
eat your heart out,� she cortin-
uede
2 young boy sleeps tonight not
knowing if he will ever see to-
mOLLTOW e
A little girl hugs her dcll
ard wonders why Dadey never tucks
her in any moree
The oSilent Majority� sleeps,
content to ojust ec along with
things as they are."
But I lie awake, my thoughts
punctuated with the frequent re-
verberations of artillary rounds,
eating; my heart out over a letter,
a boy, and a picture on the wall.
Irvin 3S Roger, CFT khiC
FTA
J.C. PEELE, A~.D.
June 1970 KINSTON, N.C
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what are we doing about the
mass murder in Vietnam today? As
American citizens we demonstrate
azainst the war so as to let our
higher officials hear use But
inetead of listening they call us
radicals and broadcast that we
are strongly influenced by Commu-
nists.
As GI*s we feel that it is our
duty to let the American people
understand our viewpoints of Viet
Name So we have obtained a picé..
ture of a Vietnamese soldiere ~
This can also be a picture of an
American GI and in many cases
often is.
The American government is
supposedly run by the people.
Then for God*s sake why won't our
government cease this war machine
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' Think About It"He CanTt
Stop It
There are many cases of con-
stitutional rights being denied
military and civilian personnal
on Fort Bragg and other military
instalations. On May l6th a ser-
geant from the 503rd M.P. Battal-
ion saw a trainee about to sign a
petition to congress and ordered
the trainee not to sign ite There
are many reports by trainees that
they can not sign petitions due
to the fact their superiors will
impose extra duty or other pun-
ishment on theme
GI*s United is interested in
stopping these unconstitutional
practices. If you know of or were
involved in any instances where
someone was denied his rights,
please send us a statement giving
names, Situation, etce These
statements will be delivered to
sympathtic congress men and women
and not given to the Army who may
use further repression to stop
these efforts.
Klimaski shipped
2LT James R Klimaski, an ac-
tive member of GI's UNITED, was
hurridly shipped to Ft Lewis,
Washington on May 9th following
receipt of word that a request
for discharge as a conscientious
objector had been disapproved.
Jim, a McCarthyite during the
~68 presidential campaign, was on
temporary duty here at Ft Bragg.
He applied for discharge as a CO
in April, feeling that he could
no longer participate in the US
Army, especially in light of the
conflict in S.E. Asia.
Due to his involvement in GI*s
UNITED and newspaper interviews
in several straight press publica-
tions in which he voiced objec-
tion to the war and the Army, the
application was shoddily expedi~
ted.to the point of denying Jim
due process under existing regu-
lations e
DA returned the denial after
less than two weeks (normal is
approximately 1 month). In spite
of Ft Bragg regulations stating
that personnel will be properly
cleared from the post, Jim was
cleared in 3 hours (a Psyops ma-
jor signing for several post
.facilities) and given a direct
written order to sign out of
Bragg by midnight of the 9the
A congressional investigation
originating from the office of
Rep Allard K Lowenstein revealed
that Gen Tolson, the post com-
mander, had refused to have
Klimaski assigned to his poste
eS (8/7 Jim has already begun anti-
A WW ebiesieg war activities at Ft Lewis.
Sometimes it is necessary Wm
for men to scream against
a world they never made,
and cannot control.
TeRe Fehrenbach
and stop this so-called police
action, better known as the Indo-
chinese conflict?
THIS IS REPRESSION
FIRE
Last week the Quaker House, a
house of worship, and a meeting
place of GI's United was des-
troyed by fire. Surrounding
events lead many to a conclusion
of arsone
The fire was last Wednesday
morninge Three days after Fayette
ville witnessed the biggest anti-
war demonstration in North Caro-
lina history. Ten hours after the
largest crowd ever attended a
GI"s United meeting. During a
period where threatening phone
calls were common at the House.
Hate calls were made to the
neighborTs home who alerted the
fire company.
The police department of Fay-
etteville in a seemingly reluc-
tant manner have been investiga-
ting, but have yet to find any
concrete evidence toward the ar-
Sone
The fire caused over $3,000
worth of damage to the building,
and $1,000 in personal loss, and
forced the permanent closing of
the Quaker House. A city ordin-
ance prevents repair.
GI's United and the Quakers
will not quite These groups have
always battled the ridiculous and
petty community attitudes. When
people must resort to fire-bomb-
ing when there is dissent, it on-
ly reminds us of the sickness in
the nation and justifies even
more the need to reform.
Quaker House will find a new
homee GI dissent will mount. And
we will win.
We Will Win
June 1970
The following are excerpts
from an article by ex-Green Beret
Don Duncan dealing with the CIA
inspired overthrow of Prince
Sihanouk of Cambodia.
ten prior to the US invasion of
Cambodia.
_ -- MEMASRESPEAERERAAS SEP RCE RARER aan8
Sihanouk gave up the throne to
become head of a socialist party.
While Cambodia's neighbors were
arming to protect themselves from
their own people and becoming
ever deeper enmeshed in American
foreign policy, Sihanouk was
building schools and hospitals.
Sihanouk was willing to accept
aid for his country from any
source so long as it came witheut
strings.
While ARVN was being used to
extort taxes and haul guillotines
from village to village, Sihanouk
set his small army to clearing
jungle for new farmland for the
people. He made his generals act
out their militaristic fantisies
in home-movies.
It was write-
o_o i wry
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BRIEFS
Under Sihanouk's direction
refugee camps were set up for
Vietnamese who had fled the war
and government in their own
country. Actually model hamlets
(materials were cajoled from pri-
vate businessmen), which came
complete with farm land and fin-
ancial grants, put the CIA sink-
holes in Vietnam called Strategic
Hamlets to shame,
Twice a year he brought the
people and all government offic-
ials face to face. The purpose
was to let the people point ac-
cusing fingers at the shortcom-
ings of those serving them. If
the official could not defend hinm-
self against the charge of graft,
extortion, injustice, etc., he
was fired on the spot.
Sihanouk made every public of-
ficial spend one day a week at
real manual labor on public works
projects, E.E. youth hostels, ir-
rigation ditches for farmers, etc.
Since Sihanouk did not exempt him-
self, despite being the busiest
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June 1970
cambodia
man in the country, no one was
exempt.
Cambodia is the only country
in Indochina into which we have
not poured billions of dollars.
While its neighbors destroyed
themselves under U.S. direction,
Cambodia progressed in all areas
- health, wealth, food, industry,
education. Walking a narrow line,
Sihanouk kept his country direct-
ly out of way. He was the rarest
of all things - a truly popular
leader with his people. One only
had to see him wade unescorted
through throngs of people to see
how real was their mutual love
and respect.
Sihanouk related to the people
not the politicians, the Army, or
to the moneyed elite. He was mak-
ing socialism work for the people
when the U.S. said it had to be
the U.S. way or no way. He made
progress without U.S. arms and
money when the U.S. said such a
thing was impossible, He kept his
country aloof from the war when
the U.S. said neutralism was
death. He was proving a country
could remain independent and yet
be cooperative with many coun-
tries of various political per-
Suasions. He was eradicating
YaciSMeecee
The Beginning of the End
The ominous puzzle and polit-
ical game continues in SE Asia.
President Nixon has again befud-
dled the populace, foreign policy
experts, and other nations with
his excursion into Cambodia. The
move has elicited numerous inter-
pretations, but mainly it has
created a great world guessing
LaMe e
Assuming President Nixon wants
out of Indochina, either by his
Vietnimazation program or by ne-
gotiated settlement, the move in
to Cambodia perhaps follows his
inane logic. It fails as an act
of wise decision-making when
weighing all considerations.
Dissent at home is peaking.
The people of the country were
again betrayed by false promises
and clandestine military plan-
ning. The Commander-in Chief had
conveniently squelched dissent
with promised draft reductions,
phased withdrawls, and statements
like oa just peace around the
corner", in speeches from Novem-
ber thru April.
Apathy has been severed. The
anti-war forces have begun a mass
BRAGG BRIEFS
wave of owithin-the system� po-
litical activism such as lobbying
Congress, nationwide petitioning,
campaigning, and school strikes.
A great constitutional battle
reigns in the Senate concerning
the President's power to wage
ware Though a clear-cut majority
favors a measure to curb action
in Cambodia, efforts may prove
abortive due to filibustering by
Nixon loyalists, and escaperoutes
accesible to the President.
The Achilles tendon of the ad-
ministration's war effort may
well be the current financial
crisis, influenced predominantly
by escalation of the war and na-
tionwide protest. As the stock
market tumbles, the war is gain-
ing more attention as the insti-
gator of inflation and recession.
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Though the Cam. ~dian move pro-
tects American trovys (to quicken
withdrawls as Nixon claims) the
ramifications in a tense world
situation are dangerous. China?
Already the Asian giant has call-
ed together the revolutionary
forces of Indochina for united
action to oust the imperialist
invader. She has already pledged
more financial and military sup-
port to Hanoi. Russia, who seemed
to be urging Hanoi toward concil-
iatory bargaining with the US,
now has cooled to such idease
Military experts also assail
the mission. How many times in
the past 9 years has a President
promised to end the war with one
dramatic stepe The Tet offensive
in 1968 was preceded only four
months by an American ocrushing
blow� to Communist sanctuaries.
The administration's policy
dictates such myopiae The silent
majority will accept any move to
"protect our boys over there�.
The logic of. Johnson and Nixon
naturally produces this endless
debacle. There can be no just
peace, there can be no victorye
Rational must be changed. Why
continue Gulf of Tonkin elusive-
ness in justifying American
troops to kill Indochinese people
destroy its land, tear apart this
country, and further protract
world discord. We must restore
sanity at home before its too
latee
©1970 Chicago Daily News
oDear President Nixon
INVASION.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
brass, lifers, and Armed Forces
Day as a wholee
Among the leaflets passed out
was USATCI Reg 600-51 which deals
with the standards of conduct be-
tween permanent party and trainee
personnel. Col Thomas R Cross, the
training center commander and
author of the reg, was so complete-
ly dumfounded and taken aback at
the possible distribution of his
own reg that he even considered
the possibility of obtaining a
federal court injunction aimed at
halting its distribution on post.
Cross apparently knows only too
_"
well what would occur if all train-
ees were informed as to what the
reg contains. Some examples: no
profane or abusive language toward
anyone or a groups no use of lan-
guage connoting ridicule or sar-
casm which would tend to humiliate
or embarrass an individual or
groups no mass punishment; no pun-
. . . What really tickled my funny bone was
when you said you were sending troops to Cambodia to save lives... .
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violations of this particular reg.
Obviously, Cross never intended
to have the reg enforced and it is
equally obvious that his actions
in attempting to suppress distribu-
tion was an act of fear - fear
that his double-fisted dictator-
ship would crumble under the tide
of freedom and justice.
oinvasion� was a success as
far as its organizers were concern-
ed. It introduced the concept of
non-cooperative and legal non-in-
volvement in the war machine to
hundreds of active duty Gis. Jane
Fonda read the above described reg
to a group of trainees and began
to distribute ite She, Barbara
Dane, and Mark Lane were later ar-
rested by the MPs and taken to the
Provost Marshall's Office, along
with about 13 other civilians who
had been picked up for distribu-
tion of leaflets on the post, but
only after a bunch of good rap
sessionse It was a successful ex-
'leaflet all the time,
M-16 RALLY
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
versities in the provinces, and
all the government officials once
a week, and dig this, had to go
into the fields and work with the
people.� She emphasized the tre-
mendous voice of the people in
Cambodia under the prince.
Jane adamantly charged the US
in biased politics in dealing
with Cambodia's neutrality. oWhen
we saw the Chinese giving aid to
Cambodia, we said GOTTA GET OUT
OF THERE, canTt have the Chinese
giving aidoee so we cut off dip-
lomatic relations with Sihanouke.
ee and Nixon says we are protect-
ing a neutral government noWe�
The actress urged strong sup-
port from civilians for GI's and
added oLet*s all go on bases and
let's camp
outside the bases, let*s show
them we are behind themeeee be=
lieve me Nixon may be able to ig-
nore Congress, the American
people, but he can't very well
ignore the sound of his troops
marching against his policiese�
In a reply to an invitation by
General Tolson to visit post
(legally) she stated "I will come
when all our troops are out of SE
Asia, when the Bill of Rights is
extended to the GI's.�
Rennie Davis oindicted� Rich-
ard Nixon as the chief culprit in
destroying GI loyalty and morale.
In explaining where the relevant
he chided the establishment's name
tags by saying "it will come from
all the punks, outlaws, bums, re-
volutionaries and anarchists�
In a critique of our move into
Cambodia, Rennie described the
destruction of that neutral coun-
try, and remarked oRichard Nixon
in trying to get a sanctuary in
Cambodia, had created an Indo-
chinese war in which China is the
sanctuary e"
The victim of Julius Hoffman's
wrath labeled Vietnamization as
genocide in that "380,000 Viet-
amese civilians have been killed,
and + of ths Se Vietmanese pop-
ulation are locked up in concen-
tration camps.�
Davis warned the audience that
"there is not only a war against
Indochina, but the US has waged
war against the black and brown
communities, and we announce to
Agnew country that the anti-war
movement will no longer be sep-
arated from the black liberation
movemente�
The large crowd, which respond-
ed wildly to speeches all day
roared loudest to Mark Lane'~s
dramatic promise that "we will
tear down this military man by
man," as he refered to a machine
that was originally formed by
civilians to crush fascism and is
now promoting it. Lane, WWII vet,
blasted Nixon's abuse of the con-
ing of an interview with a Viet-
nam veteran who had witnessed
atrocities. He also mentioned a
study made by the Rand Corpora-
tion at the request of Richard
Nixon dealing with the feasibil-
ity of dispensing with the 1972
elections.
Political entertainment was
provided by Barbara Dane. After
several numbers on the GI move-
ment, she turned the crowd on to
a chant dealing with what might
be the backbone of the GI move-
ment - INSUBORDINATION. The Fay-
etteville Theatrical Association
street theater presented a mock
trial of the ruling class.
The GI movement was described
by the Fort Bragg speakers in de-
tail. J.C. Hunnicutt of Women's
Emancipation in Fayetteville ex-
pressed her feelings on the GI
oppression which entailed the
bondage of GI women as welle JeCo
made the crack of the day by say-
ing "Richard Nixon is not a pres-
ident, héts a pimp.�
The rally was summed up best
by one of the civilian organizers
"The rally was the biggest anti-
war protest in North Carolina
historye It proved the GI's coulc
muster strong civilian support.
It proved to people GI*s will
speak out, and it proved that un-
ited they have power-power that
made the army restrict many GI's
oI was born in Kentucky
Kentucky raised and bred
But when I joined The Movement
stitution as "the greatest in
They called me a Chinese Red.�
and which caused the cancellation
history." He played a tape record-
of Armed Forces Daye�
periment in relating masses of
ishment by NCO's; etc. Basic train-
civilians to the GI movement.
ing at Ft Bragg is dependent on
support comes for the GI movement
June 1970
Bi AGG 3RINRS
GI Movement News
UFO Shut DOWN
Columbia, S.Ce (LNS)e.--Three op-
erators of the UFO coffe house
near Fort.Jackson have been con-
victed of maintaining a public
nuisance and sentenced to six
years in prison.
The coffee house, used as a
gathering place for anti-war GI's
and students, was described as a
place where drugs were commonly
sold, where oobscene� material
was available, where young people
were corrupted, where persons of
"evil repute� congregated and
where loud music which disturbed
the peace was played. The state's
case rested on the testimony of
four witnesses, all convicted
drug dealers who had been given
immuni ty e
"The UFO was throwing drug
dealers oute But the state was
giving them immunity to get rid
of the UFO,� said defense attor-
ney Robert Boult.
The three organizers, R.- Duane
Ferre, William Balk and Leonard
Cohen, are all out on bail, while
the case is being appealed.
ATTITUDE CHECK (Camp Pendleton)..
Actress Jane Fonda and Black
Panther leader Robert Bryan ap-
peared at a Movement for a Demo-
cratic Military open house.
MDM held the first of a series
of open meetings at a park in
Oceanside, California. About 50
marines attended.
DUCK POWER (San Diego Naval Base)
Racial trouble has broken out
at the North Island NeAcSeEoMe
club. The paper
charges club manager Chief John
Ryan as a racist and demands EM
control over the club.
/ LIGOT HIM
BECAUSE HE'S
A TERRIFIC
SARGE, HOW
DID YOU COME
TO GET OTTO IN
THE FIRST PLACE?
we must look funny to someone,
tumbling through the universe
locked in a death grip with our
tiny ball Rarth and ripping her
busily to pieces, trailing a
stinking film of sas and pieces
of satellites and mushroom and
dust clouds.
Think of her new. an unspoiled
country lying open to the sun.
Think of oceans of beauty, in-
stead of scattered puddles, muddy
and drying Upeee
J. & T. Russell
Liberated
After being in the Army for
eight months, Pvt. Larry McCleary
has finally been liberated from
military bondage.
Pvt. McCleary was once assign-
ed to A-10-2, but transfered to
HHD 2nd Bdee after he refused to
be part of the war-machine. Natu-
rally, he was court-martial for
refusing a direct order and given
six months Fte Riley. However,
with his firm and dedicated stand
Pyvte McCleary showed the Brass
and lifers he would not submit;
so they gave him a 212 discharge.
This all proves: oDare to strug-
gle, Dare to Wine�
THE PAWN (Maryland area bases) ee.
It was reported that there is
an officers Resistance obustin
out all over�. A captain spoke at
a GI rally for peace held in La-
fayette park just across from the
White House.
ABOVE GROUND (Fort Carson) ee.
Above Ground, listed by name,
rank, and job all of Fort Carsorts
Military Intelligence officer
personnel. This was a follow up
to a previous listing of C.I.D.
personnel.
FeTeAe (Fort Knox) eee
The April 8th, 1970 issue of
the Wall Street Journal in an ar-
ticle on the editorial page dis-
cussed GI organizing in general
and Fort Knox (FTA) in particulan
The article raises such issues as
GI civilian organizer relation-
ships and the problems of move-
ment relevancy to the local GI.
These issues are critical, and
must be aired and we urge reading,
BECAUSE I'M SURROUNDED
BY 200 PRIVATES
WITH RIFLES
you're
SURROUNDED BY
200 PRIVATES
WITH RIFLES!
WHAT Do YOU
NEED A
WATCHDOG
FOR
oRebellion is of two sorts: it
may be pur~ely personal or it may
be inspired by a desire for a
aifferent kind of community from
that in which the rebel finds
himself. In the latter case his
desire can be shared by others;
in many instances it has been
shared by all except a small
minority who profit from the ex-
isting system. This type of rebel
is constructive not anarchic;
even if his movement leads to
temporary anarchy it is intended
to give rise in the end to a new
stable community."
--from Power by
Bertrand Russell
(1872-1970)
Pajre 6
M-16 Action
The results of the anti-war
activities of May 16th, Armed
Forces Day, varied a great deal.
The most obvious result was that
the military was forced to cancel
twenty-four out of forty regular-
ly scheduled Armed Forces Day
celebrations at posts around the
country e
Although the objective was not
just to shut down these celebra-
tions, it was still a fantastic
display of power and solidarity
between GI*s and civilianse
The reaction of the military
and certain elements of the local
communities were consistently
repressive:
- At Fort Dix, NeJe an attempted
"march on post was stopped by tear
gas and all GI's there were re-
stricted;
- At Fort Benning, Georgia the
commanding General is offering
three-day week-day passes to any-
one who turns someone in for dis-
tributing their paper, "Rap", on
posts
- At Fort McClellan, Alabama one
of the key civilian organizers
had his water turned off by his
landlords
- At Grissom Air Force Base,
Indiana some of the local commu-
nity actually armed themselves
with clubs, sticks, and rocks;
-" At Fort Ord, California there
is a new reg banning the fist and
"Vv" signs on post, whether in
uniform or note
Repression at some posts was
harsher than at others, but at
most it took the form of extra
duty, restrictions, riot control,
and threatened bustse
GI*s refused to be intimidated
by such actions. Their presence
in unprecedented numbers at
rallies across the country showed
that the GI has become the new
focus of the anti-war movement.
After all, the objective of May
16 was not just to stop some
celebrations, but to shut down
the war machine.
SHUTITDOWNSHUTITDOWNSHUTITDOWNSHU
Reservists
RESERVISTS WANT CONGRESSMEN OUT
WASHINGTON, D.C.e(LNS)=-In an
unprecendented lawsuit filed in
Federal Court May 11, the Re-
servists' Committee to stop the
War moved to expel 122 Congress-
men from the Armed Forces Re-=
serves and the National Guard.
Claiming that it is an unconstit-
utional conflict of interest for
a congressman to hold any
military position, the committee
cited Article1l, Section 6 of the
Constitution: "oeeeno person hold-
ing any office under the United
states shall be a member of
either house during his contin-
uance in office."
The split loyalties of a
legislator-reservist to both his
local constituency and the Pent-
agon waS,until cold war cases,
no problem, but now it would be
well if both the Senate and the
House forced members to choose
between their seats in ~Congress
and their military commissions.
June 1970
As a member of the 82nd Abn Div,
I have had considerable opportunity
to study the phenomenon known as
"RIOT CONTROL". Let*s take a look
at this peculiar activity and see
if we can find out what is behind
it.
We are told that our function
is to protect the lives and pro-
perty of the people in cities torn
by ocivil unrest". From the actions
taken recently by National Guard
elements in Uhio and Georgia, and
by police in California, it be-
comes obvious that these prior-
ities are a bit confused. The con-
cern shown is primarily for pro-
perty as opposed to life. This
points up to me a fact of American
iife that is worthy of consider-
ation. We have been on a material-
istic kick for so long that we are
more concerned with a dorm, an ad-
ministration building, or a bank
than we are with the lives of the
people whose existences are op-
pressed by these institutions. We
would, it seems, rather kill our
brothers than help them to throw
over the yoke which oppresses us
all.
It doesn't matter what I say,
though,because it won't really
com home to you until you see it
happening in your own home town
and then have to go in and play
substitute pig, putting down your
own friends and neighbors. When
this happens, you may finally
come to realise that the fight
isn't against you or "America's
Guard.of Honor�, but against the
Same system that puts you on KP,
on guard, on extra duty- the sys-
tem that holds you in bondage in
the world of 0.D. The system that
has you working 24 hours a day
for less than they pay a page-vcy
in congress (he's the one they
base their minimum wage laws on).
The system is using you to put
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Farhan a ahaa�. 9.9.9.8 .8,9, 9.8.8.9 .8, 6 8 8 08,
nixon vs. peopl
Nixon cries out for peaceful
dissent after ROTC buildings are
burned and four students are mur-
dered by trigger-happy week-end
warriorse He says he'll listen to
peaceful dissent, but he couldn't
hear hald a million people in
Washington, DeCe above the roar
of the crowd at the Purdue game.
What indication does he give that
he'll listen to us "bums�"� noWe
In his estimation, anyone who
doesn't see through the same dis-
torted window he looks through is
a bume At last count there were
quite a few bums as 58% of the
country opposed the use of US
troops in Cambodia and only 21%
approvede
He speaks of the "Silent Maj-
ority" equating apathy with as-
sent. The apathetic supported
Hitler, the apathetic support
anyone in power. This country was
founded on a revolutionary minor-
BPTEFS
americaTs
guard
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WHO PARTICIPATEP w THE KENT STATE MASSACRE
down the man who is fighting to
make you free.
Wake up, brothers, "The Man"
is trying to make you a pig in
the name of peace. Ask yourself
what you'd do if it was your
brother on the far end of that
bayonet. It is, you know,
WHAT YOU CAN DO
(to avoid killing your brother)
There are several means open to
you if you want to miss the chance
of participating in one of these
little opeace keeping� expeditions
You could, for example, have a re-
currence of that old"football inj-
ury" or a heavy toothache, and go
on sick call.
You could decide it might be a
zood day to see your chaplain,IG,
shrink, JAG. officer, or (eech!)
the re-up NCO. You could decide
mm that you don't really groove on
the war bag and file for C.0.
As regulatdigns are now, they have
to sive you seven days to prepare
your application, and you could
4) ahiitanwatD
want it after all.
There are a lot of possibil-
~ ities in the reg: to keep you off
wee
sa
ee
ity, the history books lauding
the fact that at no time during
the war were more than 1/3 of the =:
people in favor of the revolution. 3:
It was treasonous then to speak ee
out against the government of
George III; its treasonous today
to speak out against the govern-
ment of Nixon and Agnewe
King Richard was supposed to
cone to Ft Bragg on Armed Forces :
Daye Does anyone know of a reason #&
for his cancelling his trip? Why #:
did he cancel his trip to Stone #&
Mountain, Georgia? Why did Pat se
cancel her trip to Mary Washing- #
ton College? Could it be theyTre #
afraid of the people and the
power they haveée
Nixon uses American troops to
protect him from the American
poe
peoples Who will protect him from 2:
: for free choice,an@ in this case,
se the
we final. decision is youe Think about
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stetetet
otstenes
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statetet
stetetet
the American troops? The Praetor-
ian Guard killed many a Caesar.
How much longer will the 82nd
continue to protect the palace?
www the streets.
ts violence,
ee your weapon seens
me the
Just look for them.
If,however, you do get stuck on
a long green line somewhere, what
do you do? One thing you might try
is seeing that the pigs stay with-
se in the law while you're in the
ee areae In many of these scenes,
it's the pigs themselves who, by
over-reacting and unnecessary
cause the deaths that
we'd get blamed for.
If you think you can do it, and
ms I make no v:nes about it ,it*s ile
lesal as hell, you might try sim-
Dly laying down your weapon. I
can't,myself see turning it on the
lifers aroun? you (though I can't
m b..ame you, if that*s your bage),
but the simple act of laying down
to me to be both
u-nt gesture of protest at
oppression th:.t the lifers are
trying; to force you to represents
an eloq
ss and a plea for the reason that
se See
se once a confroenta*ion is effected.
ma
poe Pe)
to be lacking on both sides
I can*t tell you what to doe
a despite ropular opinion, there is
stil] some room in this country
individual who must make the
tse It*s your brother.
CCONTINUsD PROM PAG: I
there, but did you ever stop to
realize that however you serve
your time in ©.D., even if you
don*t get the opportunity to go
over and kill "ogooks", our boys
in Washington have got you pay-
ing for the whole shooting match.
if you make it to the "scene
cf the crime", you can pay with
eremy bodies, or maybe with your
lifeblood. If you get stationed
Stateside or in a non-combat zone,
you pay by supporting the troops
in Indochina or by replacing a
obody� on levy.
. No matter where you are, you
pay taxes, and a good 60% of that
goes into the war éffort. You can
not fight the tax structure
short of revolution.
But while we're working on that,
there is one way many of us are
helping to pay for this little
imperialistic adventure that we
can do something about, and that
is savings bonds.
You know how the boMnd thing
works. Every G.I. is supposed to
have an allotment taken out of
his monthly check for savings
bonds. This way the idiots in
civilian bond commercials can
teld the public that the Amer-
ican Fighting Man backs up his
country where it really counts,
namely with money: so why
Shouldn*t John Q. Average kick
in too? Bullshit! You know as well
as I do that G.I.*s buy bonds bec-
ause they are harassed into it.
Sure, your CO will tell you
that he can*t force you to buy
bonds, but spending two hours
rapping to you about the advan-
tages of bonds when you were
supposed to be in town with
your girl, or sending you back
for that third haircut because
"it just doesn't look right�,
or cancelling that three-day
pass you~d counted on for a
month can*t really be called
oforcing� you. Like hell it
canTt!
But why is he so concerned
that you should buy bends? He's
maybe patriotic or something?
eee JUSTICE TRIUMPHS
Cn may 16, after the Anti-War
Rally, the local pigs arrested
Rennie Davis and c!.arged hii with
kidding, it*s really that im- obscenity, because he had the
portant. That little blue flag balls to tell the Gels to para-
in front of your Battalion Hq. lyze the Mother-Fucking War Mach-
means a lot to the lifers, and INE «
they*re really in a hurt if they re The .
don*t get to put another star on oPey Aad ac
it now and then. but, Oey, S20n" ts eGTe on: HeorEe
So okay- you should buy bonds, [27y_ (ns ee Sal Day pe Oe rey Set
Tt*ll keep the lifers off your Charlotte. roe8 Daly Naat pgs cin
back. But then why are we Saying Byes ae UNCet: Whey. Bago Ree
you shouldn't? Lots of reasons: been: arrested Pe ee
3onds support the war; bonds sup- i* Was oe eee ae
port the lifers; your buying Lal a wordaman ala Shoei imse
bonds is a selling point to get ok Dain BINS See moni mo
civilians to buy them; and last, arrested. Or a man and wife in nc
but certainly not least, It's a privacy of their own home could be
lousey deal money-wise, You coulg Jailed. Mr. Daly argued tiat the
make more money by starting a Law was unenrorcable and therefore
bank account than by holding your Uncenstitutionale :
bonds to maturity, because bank cuprisingly enougT, the judge
interest rates are higher than G8 o2dd and he set Rennie Davis
bond rates. So you see that by Frees. sey ied cpa cai
coercion and an appeal to patrio- his 1s dust 3 smal) sb ettig
tism your CO is actually causing whe people but tt 1: the |
you to lose money rather than of many$ POWER TO THE PECPER
Save it, Be i ALLARD R ERNE ENE EGR A IRAE TIE
So we are organizing for a mas- Bragez Briefs is published by:
Sive bond allotment cancellation
by GeI.*s who wish to express
their sentiments, be they anti-
War, anti-harrassment, anti-lifer,
or just plain pro-money. All you
have to do is get an appointment
with the allotment section of
your finance group and request
to cancel your bond allotment.
This will have several effects,
It will definitely mess over the
minds of the lifers, who are in
the middle oi a bond drive at the
moment; it*ll show them that not
everybody is afraid of the shit
they put out; it might make the
government aware of some of the
dissatisfaction in the ranks as
well as bringing the participat-
ing G.I."s closer together in
their resistance to the lifers;
and if enough people get involved,
it could cut a fair piece out of
the government's war budget.
One final comment that might
bear consideration- to mature a
bond takes about six years; and
in order to cash it in, there
has to be a government around to
pay it off. Considering the way
our boys down in Washington have
been working lately, do you think
anybody stands much of a chance
to collect?
sot lately. It*s just that if
he doesn't get his bond quota
up over 95% he might as well
Kick it for promotion. No
loca] authoritics thought
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aone tneir fascist duty,
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