Word: almond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary fatigue uniform and cap, with a .38-caliber revolver at his side and an old leather map case under his arm, trim, greying General Almond spent the first few days of the week making the rounds of his troops. He inspected the marines in their staging area, chatted with a hundred leathernecks ("What's your name? Where's your home? How long have you been in the service?"), found one who didn't know his rifle number and chided him (it's a military notion that a soldier who knows his rifle number will treat...
...paid homage at a hillside cemetery where lie Americans and Koreans killed in the Inchon campaign. He was host at a dinner for Marine regimental commanders, giving weatherbeaten Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller of the 1st Marine Regiment the place of honor. On the Inchon waterfront Almond saw tanks loaded aboard LSTs. He flew in a Piper Cub 200 miles south to inspect the 7th Infantry Division in another staging area; he watched the doughfeet, stripped to the waist in the warm South Korean sun, maneuver through combat exercises in paddy fields and up hillsides...
...Division was recently reinforced by 8,000 South Koreans. In a 100-mile tour of the 7th's area, Almond asked one officer after another how the Korean troops were getting along in their training. All told him of difficulties arising from the language barrier. Said one colonel: "We may have to rewrite our own training program after teaching the Roks. I am convinced that we have devoted too much time to lectures and too little time to demonstrations. With the Roks, it's no use to talk. You just have to show them over & over; finally they...
After looking over the 7th, Ned Almond flew back to Inchon. His men were ready to play their part in the drive for a quick finish...
Whip-Cracker. Almond (pronounced All-mond) is a whip-cracking officer. He never compromises with discipline, drives himself hard and his subordinates only a shade less hard. To some he seems an insufferable martinet. Those who know him best say his professional manner, at times as tough as armor plate, is only the protective covering for a courtly, convivial, even sentimental off-duty personality...