Word: bragg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fort Bragg...
...Indian Ocean and into the Persian Gulf. It would include carriers whose jets would secure air control, and ships carrying at least a division of Marines (15,000 men). The second force would include two brigades of the 82nd Airborne Division (7,600 men) now stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C. They would fly to Hatserim Air Base, a closely guarded, little-known facility in Israel, and then await further orders. In using Hatserim as a staging base, Washington would be collecting IOUs that it has accumulated by funneling billions in military aid to Israel...
...Bragg, N.C. Two days later the alert was canceled, and their deployment to Boston seemed highly unlikely...
...cables to Henry Kissinger from foreign capitals. A likely instance is the book's recounting of how in the mid-1960s the CIA helped Peru to quash an indigenous guerrilla movement. At the request of the government, headed by Fernando Belaunde Terry, the agency erected a miniature Fort Bragg in the heart of the Peruvian jungle and recruited a crack counterinsurgency team, which made short work of the guerrillas. Another passage reports that in 1969 the agency learned of a scheme by radicals to hijack a Brazilian airliner. The CIA kept the news to itself for fear that...
There are, of course, many other deserters and draft dodgers who want to come home now that the war has ended, but they do not dare face the risks. One Green Beret medic who deserted Army training at Fort Bragg, N.C., four years ago was arrested and was being court-martialed when he escaped and made his way to Sweden. Last summer he arrived in Canada with another American expatriate whom he had married in Stockholm. Now he wants to return to the U.S. "I have a feeling for the U.S. and the future," he says...