Word: dmz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marine units now positioned on landing craft off the coast of the DMZ (acting either as a decoy deterrent force or as an attack group to invade North Vietnam) are the same units which were sent to Okinawa from Vietnam...
...advance notice given before this move, it is pretty obvious that no North Vietnamese or Pathet Lao troops are going to be in the area waiting to be attacked. Now that the area has been opened up to South Vietnamese troops, they may busy themselves extending the DMZ westward through Laos, planting mines in a "MacNamara's line" type...
Since mid-1969, the U.S. has thinned its forces throughout Asia (see map). In South Korea, the departure of 20,000 G.I.s will force Seoul's troops to patrol the entire 151-mile length of their DMZ for the first time since 1950. In Japan, there will be 12,000 fewer U.S. servicemen. The U.S. Navy plans to vacate its huge Yokosuka base in favor of quarters in Sasebo, and some 50 F-4 Phantom jets will be moved to South Korea...
...Hanoi's nights when unarmed U.S. reconnaissance flights triggered radar shields. Suddenly, in the early morning hours, radar screens all over North Viet Nam blossomed in menacing blips. Across communications nets lashed word that waves of U.S. planes were bombing heavily south of the 19th parallel: north of the DMZ, east of the Laotian border. That had happened before in the interim since the bombing halt ?five times, in fact. But this was something far more...
...Marvin had been a shy, fumbling, big-boned freckled boy who wasn't coordinated enough to play football or put the shot. But he lifted weights and always tried so very hard. Everyone wished him well. He enlisted. . . the Marines. He had just returned from the DMZ. The transformation was electric. With his black mustache, he looked like Clark Gable, broad chest, flat waist, deep penetrating calm blue eyes that seemed bottomless. Sideburns, deep unhesitating voice. Marvin was a presence of energy, a star...