Word: decks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...others. A U.S. helicopter dipped down to pick up Cambodian survivors, but lifted off without any after it came under Cambodian fire. On Ford's orders, the eighth gunboat was allowed to proceed toward Kompong Som because a pilot reported seeing eight or nine men with "Caucasian faces" on deck; they were thought to be those of some or perhaps all of the Mayaguez's crew...
...ordered 210 Marines led by Lieut. Colonel Randall W. Austin, the ships and warplanes at Utapao and aboard the Coral Sea to make final preparations. Three HH-53 Jolly Green Giant helicopters fluttered from Utapao to the destroyer escort Holt, where 40 Marines clambered down ropes to the deck...
...Holt snuggled up to the Mayaguez. Rifles at the ready, the Marines climbed over the rail to the freighter; the Holt's deck crew trained machine guns on the Mayaguez's deck. With the Marines came a crew to sail the Mayaguez to freedom and a demolition team to check the ship for bombs and booby traps. To the Marines' surprise, no one was aboard. In the galley were bowls of warm rice and tea, but the diners?possibly Cambodians ?had disappeared. The disappointed Marines hoisted a U.S. flag on the freighter's fantail and awaited further developments...
...U.S.S. Blue Ridge were openly bitter about Ambassador Graham Martin's failure to make firm, clear decisions on how the plan would actually be carried out -feelings that were hardly helped by the sight of Nitnoi, Martin's pet poodle, being given its daily turn about the deck. On evacuation day the emergency plan fell apart, leaving stranded hundreds of Vietnamese employees of the U.S. embassy, USAID and USIS. Some were never called, and buses were too crowded or failed to make their way to designated pickup points. In one shocking instance, a senior member of the embassy...
Martial Arts. On the bridge, Captain James Scott, 48, the Forrestal's skipper and a former fighter pilot, watched the thunderous flight deck activities below with a cheerful scowl: "We can do this with a 200-ft. ceiling and three-quarter-mile visibility," he said in his Alabama drawl. "That's badass. We don't like it, but in a crunch we have that capability, even at night...