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...Texas; the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kans.; the 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga.; the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, Wash.; the 5th Infantry Division (mechanized) at Fort Carson, Colo.; the 101st Air borne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky.; and what is left of the 82nd Airborne Division after some 12,000 of its men were sent from Fort Bragg, N.C., to the Dominican Republic. In addition, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has designated six National Guard and Reserve divisions as high-priority out fits furnished with the most modern sort of equipment and in a state...
...Viva Bosch!" "Let the Yankees come and get us," snarled one submachine gun-toting rebel. All through the week snipers continued to flit from house to house, pecking away at U.S. troops hemming them in. One night a rebel motorboat in the Ozama River made life difficult for the 82nd Airborne. "Eventually," explained a laconic paratroop captain, "we got tired of that, so we sank it." In other action, the paratroopers blasted another motorboat and set fire to the freighter Santo Domingo, which rebels were using as a sniper's nest...
...approximately the same time, a battalion of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division rolled out of San Isidro airbase, 14 miles away on the other side of the city. Linking up with loyal Dominican troops, the G.I.s drove up to the bridge spanning the Ozama River ?and into another volley of rebel fire. Three hours passed and the casualty toll mounted to 20 wounded before the U.S. forces could declare their objectives secured: the paratroopers to clear the approaches to the Duarte Bridge into Santo Domingo, the marines to carve a 3.5-sq.-mi. "international zone" out of the city...
...hour, he snapped: "I will not have another Cuba in the Caribbean." At last orders went out to Task Force 124, centered on the aircraft carrier Boxer and with 1,800 combat-ready marines, to make flank speed for Santo Domingo. Another set of orders started the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg, N.C., toward its C124 and C-130 transports...
Driving in Earnest. That was probably a gross exaggeration. However many there were, there was no letup in the bloodbath or in the sniping at U.S. troops. Going into action for the first time in earnest, the 82nd Airborne joined Dominican infantrymen in pushing out from the bridge perimeter, fought their way through the city's heart to link up with a Marine column attacking from the western International Zone. The drive cost another two U.S. dead, at least a dozen wounded?and brought an announcement from Washington that 2,000 more troops were being sent in, bringing...