Show Go 60 Fly A Kite Military Order US U.S. Armed Forces Use Kites for Many Duties The kite springtime playmate of small boys and frisky winds winds- seems to be most eligible for military military mil mil- service despite a harmless appearance and capricious ways Every branch of the United States armed forces has a job for the kite The air force rigs it with metal and sends it skyward as a target for its radar training program Trainees learn to the kite on n radar screens against the day they may have the grimmer task of ol tracking hostile aircraft Both the navy and air force include in in In- elude clude the kite with lifesaving equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment issued for life boat or survival survival sur sur- vival craft Its job is to carry aloft the antenna of radio sending sets and to mark the position of ot cast cast- The army signal corps on the other hand uses its kites al almost l. l most entirely for meteorological observations Despite a popular tendency to associate them exclusively with the young heart kites have served the gods of war since their invention invention tion centuries ago Legend has it that the first kite was devised by bya a Korean general who inspired his troops to attack by sending up up a kite with a lantern attached His soldiers assumed the light was a token of divine aid and fought vIc vie vic Kites fly repeatedly In and out of ot the Orients Orient's military history By Bythe Bythe Bythe the century the Japanese were building them large enough to carry carry car car- ry 17 a man a practice of short dura dura- tion |