Word: cincpac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thanks to his wartime record and his cool professionalism, Moorer, at 45, became the youngest man ever to be promoted to admiral. He has been steaming ahead at flank speed ever since. And most Navymen agree that he has even brighter prospects ahead. Said CINCPAC's Admiral Sharp last week: "Tom is an outstanding candidate for the next Chief of Naval Operations...
...admiral wasted no time. Swiftly he sent orders to his CINCPAC headquarters: the Maddox will stay in the gulf-and a destroyer, the 2,850-ton Turner Joy, then cruising in the South China Sea, will join her at once...
Long before the attack was over, CINCPAC Admiral Sharp was routed out of bed (about 4 a.m., Hawaii time) by a duty officer. He hurried to the windowless war room on the third deck of his hilltop headquarters overlooking the white sands of the Oahu coast. He slipped into his green leather chair at the center of a U-shaped table, opposite a wall on which illuminated status reports could be flashed, and picked up a dialless gold telephone at his left. On the Stateside end of the circuit was Robert McNamara. Sharp seldom left that room during the next...
...ahead of time. It is the culmination of a lot of planning, and the actual execution is fairly simple." True enough. But had he executed his orders with anything less than pinpoint precision, Sharp could well have triggered a disaster in the Far East. As Commander in Chief, Pacific (CINCPAC), he bosses a costly ($5,000,000 a day) domain that is spread over more than 40% of the earth's surface-85 million politically hot and militarily explosive square miles of land and sea. His command bristles with a complement of 440,000 men, 400 vessels...
...absorb enormous amounts of information, then ladle it out in concise, organized form during high-level briefings. Both Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Maxwell Taylor and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara quickly became Sharp admirers, and last September he took over command of the Pacific Fleet. When the critical CINCPAC appointment came up earlier this year, Oley Sharp...