Word: 3rd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JERRY D. PEEK 3rd Marine Division Viet...
...generation of Americans tasted major combat last week and passed the test. At daybreak one morning, three battalions of the 3rd Marine Division attacked some 2,000 crack Viet Cong troops holed up on a small neck of land just south of the Marine airbase at Chu Lai. By week's end the U.S. had fought its first large-scale battle since Korea and had won decisively. Smashed with the Viet Cong was the myth that the Red foe is invincible in the tangled underbrush of his home land; smashed also was the myth that...
...with its 100 pupils, who screeched "Big Joe No. 1" as he strode in. A dispensary manned by Marine Corps doctors and Navy corpsmen treats 200 Vietnamese patients a day. The Sea of People. Nor has Clement neglected fun: fortnight ago he wangled a one-night stand from the 3rd Marine Division band, and Le My bounced to the swing of Cole Porter's Can-Can. The affection of the local people has paid off militarily in that most valuable of commodities: intelli gence. Women now point out known Viet Cong leaders; old men report the laying...
...early as the 3rd century, Pope Stephen I condemned the practice of rebaptizing converted Donatist heretics in North Africa. Despite its attack on Reformation doctrines, the 16th century Council of Trent formally acknowledged the validity of Protestant baptisms. Time and again since then, the Holy Office, the Vatican's guardian of faith and morals, has ruled that converts should not even be "conditionally" baptized unless there is clear evidence that the form of the first christening was defective...
...fighting men each. Of these, the hallowed 1st Marine Division is in combat readiness at Camp Pendleton, Calif. The 2nd Division has sent slightly more than one-third of its men to the Dominican Republic, but the others remain at Camp Lejeune, N.C., on call for anywhere. The 3rd Marine Division is largely deployed in the Pacific area, and has furnished most of the corps' contribution so far to the Vietnamese fighting, particularly around the Danang airbase. Attached to each of the three divisions is an 8,000-man, 200-fighter plane air wing. Currently, parts of two wings...