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48. David Co,'tr 4 ght, Soldiers In Revolt, p. 18.
49. For the official comparison of AWOL between Vietnam and Korea see the
testimony of General Leo Benade, 9eputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
in the 1974 Hojse Amnesty Hearings, p. 540. Cf. Baskir and Strauss,
pp. 121-2.
50. Baskir and Strauss, Chance and Circumstance, p. 122.
51. Richard Boyle, Flower of the Dragon, p. 75. Linden notes: (See endnote
56)
Indeed this type of fragging has occurred in Vietnam,
and during 1967 and 1968 in the Mekong Delta regiun
"bounty hunting" enjoyed a brief vogue: A pooled waount
of money would be paid to the soldier who killed a
marked NCO or officer, p. 12.
52. US Congress, House, Subcommittee on Appropriations, 92nd Congress,
Part 3, pp. 473-4.
53. Department of Defense Statistics, see endnote 44.
54. Savage and Gabriel, "Cohesion and Disintegration," p. 16.
55. In testimony before the same subcommittee as that addressed by General
Kerwin. See Endnote 52, above.
56. Eugene Linden, "Fragging and Other Withdrawa) Symptoms," in Saturday
Review, January 8, 1972. Linden notes another significant difference:
In World War I, World War II, Korea, the typical fragging
took place in the field and for the most part during
skirmishes and firefights. An inexperienced or overly
zealc;us lieutenant would be shot by his own men while
the platoon or squad was preoccupied with the enemy.
The victim would be listed as Killed In Action. The
killing generally followed a cold reckoning by the men
in the unit that the lieutenant was a danger to them.
Albeit ruthless, this type of murder at least can be
understood as the result of life or death assessment .
However, at present in Vietnam many fraggings take place
in rear areas where the dangers are minimal and many
murder &ttempts occur without any visible provocation or
motive at all, p. 12.
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