Word: commander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military establishment, worldwide, was put into a state of "improved readiness." Leaves were canceled. The Navy was put on a four-hour alert; i.e., all ships not in major repair were to be ready to sail on four hours' notice. The Air Force's Strategic Command needed no particular word. Said one high U.S. officer about SAC: "It was ready, brother, believe...
...centers in and around Beirut, e.g., Beirut International Airport. As Lebanon would be primarily a Navy show, at least at the outset, the J.C.S. executive agent was Admiral Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke. At 6:23 p.m. the J.C.S. signaled Vice Admiral James Lemuel ("Lord Jim") Holloway Jr., commander of a dormant but newly activated interservice "Specified Command," to begin the deployment. Signaled Admiral Burke to the Marines of the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Regiment, 2nd Division, due to land on the Beirut beaches: "As you land, you will be writing another chapter in our country's history. I am confident...
Vice Admiral James Lemuel Holloway Jr., 60, in command of all U.S. fighting forces in the Middle East. "Lord Jim" Holloway (so dubbed for his courtly ways during a tour as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy) since February has paced a shore-based bridge in London as Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, commuted to his Navy-owned mansion in Surrey in a black Imperial. His clipped accent, his malacca stick with mufti, and his penchant for quoting Dickens and Thackeray delighted Londoners. But in 40-odd years of Navy life, Annapolisman Holloway...
...military efficiency, the Senate took a long step toward undoing the mischief. Texas' Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson called to the floor the President's defense reorganization bill (TIME, April 14), and the Senate unanimously passed it, heavily rephrased but scarcely damaged in substance. By imposing more command unity on the sprawling defense establishment, the measure will do more than save money: it will put the Defense Department in better organizational trim to function swiftly and effectively in case of big or little war. Main provisions...
...uniform, bypassing the service secretaries in operational matters. The old requirement that the services must be "separately administered," now reads "separately organized," i.e., the Defense Secretary cannot abolish services, but the secretaries of Army, Navy and Air Force are no longer in the chain of operational command. The Defense Secretary now has explicit authority to assign weapons to services as he sees fit, a powerful weapon in itself for putting an end to service rivalries...