21 Days Hard Labor For Hair
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (LNS) — Pfc. James Wallace, 23 years old, a Marine Corps Reservist and a student at San Diego State College, was convicted at a court-martial recently for refusal to comply with regulations that Marines must wear their hair no more than three inches long.
He was sentenced to 21 days confinement at hard labor, reduction in rank to private and forfeiture of $60.
Fourteen other Marine Reservists are awaiting courts martial on similar charges, according to a UPI dispatch.
GI Red Alert!
NEW YORK, N.Y. — Members of the American Servicemen’s Union stationed with the 3rd Infantry Division, Aschaffenburg, West Germany report that their unit and other units of the 3rd Inf. Div. were put on “red alert” to go to Jordan on Friday, June 11.
The ASU members reporting this news printed up a leaflet which was distributed to GIs in units around Aschaffenburg.
The Chairman of the ASU, Andrew Stapp said,” GIs are becoming more aware of what is going on in the Middle East. -American GIs are being told now what they were told about Vietnam five years ago. Just as in Vietnam GIs will be expected to give their blood and their lives to protect the interests of the Rockefellers, Gulf Oil and Chase Manhattan. The American Servicemen’s Union is organizing GIs to see that an imperialist war is just that no matter if it is in Southeast Asia or the Middle East.”