Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then the President ordered the Pentagon to prepare for possible military action. At his direction, Defense Department officials put on alert a 1,100-man amphibious brigade from the 3rd Marine Division, based on Okinawa. In addition, they directed six ships already in the Pacific?the destroyer escort Har old E. Holt, guided missile destroyer Henry B. Wilson and the aircraft carrier Coral Sea, accompanied by three destroyer escorts?to head for the Gulf of Siam. Finally, the Pentagon ordered three Navy P3 Orion anti-submarine reconnaissance planes at the U.S. Air Force Base at Utapao, Thailand, to keep watch...
...General John J. Burns. At 5:45 a.m. local time, he 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...
...buses began to move again and headed toward Tan Son Nhut-right into the rocket belt. Guards at the gate were firing at the buses. Pillars of black smoke rose from the airbase ahead. Over the radio we heard our own Marine escort ("Wagon Master") ask Dodge City, "What's the situation at the gate?" "Bust it if necessary," came the reply...
...Inside the airbase, a damaged American helicopter, one skid broken off, lay on the ground, its rotor still spinning. A tremendous explosion rocked our bus as a North Vietnamese 130-mm. shell hit the Air America terminal just across the road. "Don't panic!" shouted our Marine escort...
What interested Western observers more than the disposition of the ships was the basic aims of Okean 1975. They appeared to be varied. Judging from groupings of Soviet merchant and hydrographic ships off the Azores and Japan, convoy maneuvers were involved. But whether Russian warships were practicing convoy escort or postulating the convoys as U.S. fleets-or U.S. tanker convoys-would await the same sort of computer analysis that the Pentagon carried out in connection with the first Okean. Even without computers, however, it was obvious that the Soviets had also practiced air reconnaissance and antisubmarine warfare, using not only...