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...Emily R. Carrier, summer proctor, is also a Senior Editor of The Crimson...
...information was relayed to an intelligence-gathering AWACS circling high above, and then to Admiral Smith in London. He contacted Colonel Martin Berndt, commander of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit on the Kearsarge, a helicopter carrier sailing in the Adriatic. "What do you think?" asked the admiral. "I think we can get him," replied Berndt. Smith immediately gave the go-ahead, and Berndt roused 51 Marines-including 10 helicopter crewmembers-sleeping below decks; it was shortly after 3 a.m. At about the same time, Lake approached the President back in Washington, where it was around 9:30 p.m. "It looks...
Because his training ended only two months before V-E Day and just six months before Japan's surrender, Hiestand did not see combat directly. He served as an assistant supply officers in the Pacific on a CVE III aircraft carrier dubbed the Vella Gulf...
...carrier did skirt the fierce battle for control of the island of Okinawa, and Hiestand was present in Tokyo Bay as diplomats signed Japan's unconditional surrender...
...modernized to do it." Scaling back to such a force would permit the Army to cut its 10 divisions to six and the Marines its three divisions to two, according to some defense experts. Air Force fighters could fall from nearly 1,000 to 400, and the Navy's carrier fleet could shrink from 12 to 10. Lawrence Korb, a top Pentagon official during the Reagan years, agrees with McPeak's estimate that scaling back to a force for "one war plus deterrence" could save about $50 billion annually, or about 20% of the defense budget...