Armed Forces: Renaissance in the Ranks

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Since Lyndon Johnson's ringing declaration of July 28—"We will stand in Viet Nam"—the U.S. has mounted the biggest, swiftest, costliest military buildup in peacetime history. It has laid supply lines across 8,000 miles of ocean. And the nation has filled them in that time with as many tons of materiel as the U.S. could deliver for the first five months of its North African invasion in World War II. From humming Stateside training camps, where 12,500 recruits a month are being taught to fight, to the beaches and jungles of South...