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...annual fee of $12 million, supplied the nation with a highly disciplined corps of 750 Gurkha soldiers. In a rare interview on the eve of his birthday, the Sultan told TIME that there was no truth to speculation that the troops would be leaving with the British. "The Gurkha battalion will stay," he declared...
...beginning to formulate as policy." Reagan has put U.S. planes within snooping distance of Chad, but five years ago, President Carter provided Zaïre with fuel, medicine and equipment to crush a rebellion-cum-invasion there. It was the Carter Administration that promised to send an Army battalion to the Sinai peninsula to separate Israeli and Egyptian forces and encouraged the creation of a Rapid Deployment Force for quick dispatch to a possible Middle East skirmish; Reagan has simply executed those plans. Carter also resumed "nonlethal" military aid to El Salvador almost a year before Reagan took office...
Honduras, are instructing a 1,000-man battalion of Salvadoran troops in fast-reaction techniques to counter guerrilla attacks. Later this year the Green Berets will train four 350-man Salvadoran battalions in cazador (hunter) tactics to seek out rebel units. Seventy-three U.S. trainers in Honduras are split into mobile teams to provide expertise sought by the Honduran military...
...largest U.S. military contingent in Central America is based in Panama to protect the canal. It includes 9,000 Army, Navy and Air Force personnel, who man an infantry brigade, a squadron of A-7 light attack jets and a Special Forces airborne battalion. Although these forces could be carried by C-130 troop transports to Honduras or Nicaragua in less than two hours, security of the canal presumably would be of great concern in a military crisis in Central America. Any responding American troops would probably be airlifted from the U.S. in the manner soon to be rehearsed...
...troops have ever operated as army units. Marines attached to the four-nation, 52,000-man multinational force that has been patrolling Beirut since the Israeli withdrawal from the capital have helped in the effort to improve the Lebanese army. At a recent training session, six Marines ordered a battalion of Lebanese soldiers to clench their fists and scream. It took a while for the Lebanese to catch on, but soon they were yelling exuberantly. Says a Marine corporal: "These guys feel great just going through drills with a hundred other guys because they never worked together in a large...