Word: cincpac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pistol Packers. The hurried fleet and troop movements of last week were only the cocking of the pistol over threatened Laos, and the man who held the gun had plenty to back him up. He is Admiral Harry Donald Felt, U.S. Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC), boss of the biggest military contingent in the world (TIME Cover, Jan. 6). At Felt's call are the 373,000 men. 1,000 aircraft and 400 ships of the First and Seventh Fleets, the Fifth and Thirteenth Air Forces, and the Army's 1st, 7th and 25th Infantry Division. Highly mobile...
...explained the most complex, complicated and spread-out organization in the world, CINCPAC, in clear prose and enlightening maps. The details are all there, but the picture...
Free World Heir. As CINCPAC, Admiral Felt heads the largest military command in the world, capably fills a job that demands a readiness for the violent arts of war and the gentle arts of diplomacy...
...colored building squatting above the U.S. Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, the Laotian skirmishes became new red dots on a vast, well-dotted map of the Pacific frontier. In a windowless basement room that once served as a hospital morgue, Admiral Harry Donald Felt, U.S. Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC), met with his staff for their briefing. Officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines mulled over the latest intelligence reports. Then the little man with the four stars and the weight of half a world on his shoulders issued orders that soon spanned the Pacific...
...soon as he got his wings, Don Felt seemed to get more than his share of combat and command posts-experience that built the basis of his skill as CINCPAC...