Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year after Pearl Harbor Day, Pride got his first seagoing command: the carrier Belleau Wood, which joined with the Wasp, Enterprise, Saratoga and Essex as the first big carrier strike force. Some of the names entered on the Belleau Wood's log: Tarawa, Wake Island, Makin, Kwajalein, Truk, Saipan, Tinian...
Pride worked, as always, calmly. One day an overexcited deck officer gave a command: "Full speed ahead!"-instead of "All engines ahead full." Pride did not bawl out the officer for using unnautical, storybook language. The admiral made his point by adopting the same tone. "Yes, and damn the torpedoes!" he cried melodramatically...
Fourteen months ago Admiral Pride was given command of the Seventh Fleet. When he transferred his flag to the Helena, his cabin was one that had once been prepared for President Truman. The walls were painted robin's-egg blue, there was a television set and a spinet. Said Pride: "Goodness gracious, what's going on in this boudoir?" Actually, the spinet was not a bad idea: Pride likes to make music, plays the piccolo, flute, harmonica and ocarina...
General Omar Bradley called Korea "the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy." But this was not the opinion of the commanders who knew most about that war. Korea, said General James Van Fleet, "was the right war, at the right place, and the right time, against the right enemy and with the right allies." The Communists had a long, vulnerable supply line, he said, but the U.S. "had command of the water and the air...[and] unexcelled bases in Japan and Korea for redeployment...We had the tremendous skill...
...brevity of your report of the most recent Harkness coffee hour but realizing a news report is perhaps not an appropriate place for the distribution of bouquets, I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate Messrs. Seavey and Toepfer for their excellent defense of the grading system here. Their command of the fact situation, the appealing presentation of their case, and the complementary play between them was a case in point for the merits of the "Harvard Law School discipline...