Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Threw more than 9,000 marines and Army paratroops, 70 Sixth Fleet warships, 420 Navy and Air Force planes across thousands of miles to help Lebanon, set up secondary lines in nearby Turkey...
...full briefing, got it; on an order from Burke his staff began carting in briefcases and red folders containing long-prepared, frequently tested contingency war plans for the Middle East. Outline of the J.C.S. contingency plan for Lebanon: 1) move about 5,000 Marines of the Sixth Fleet into Beirut within hours, 2) move about 25,000 men of all services into the Middle East within a week. Key to the Lebanon plan: the Navy's Sixth Fleet, which had been hovering off Lebanon for three months and patrolling the Mediterranean for eight years to head off just this...
...come away impressed by the fact that all of 500,000 French troops had not been able to subdue Algeria even while holding cities, harbors, airfields, rail centers. Even the Navy, as it cruised the Mediterranean at will, had become highly sensitive to the difficulties of supplying the Sixth Fleet across 3,800 miles from Norfolk (sample statistic: 50,000 tons of fuel per month), not to mention the dangers of getting trapped in a landlocked sea in the event of any kind of atomic...
...Shores of ... That night Burke stayed in his office, catnapping every now and then in a big leather sofa, speaking over single-sideband radio to Holloway and to the Sixth Fleet commander, Vice Admiral Charles R. ("Cat") Brown, swamping down coffee, sucking on his pipe, reading the red and yellow dispatches reporting the global deployment of the U.S. Navy. Morning found Burke still in his office, the Navy deployed, the lead battalion of Marines on the Beirut beaches. The Sixth Fleet's 60,000-ton supercarrier Saratoga and support carrier Wasp, with 40-ship escort, were riding offshore. Reinforcements...
Vice Admiral Charles Randall Brown, 58, commander of the Mediterranean-based Sixth Fleet. To Alabaman "Cat" Brown, bossing this 418,000-ton, 76-ship armada is "the best job in the whole Navy." An unruly plebe at Annapolis, he logged 300 demerits, squeezed out near the bottom of his class ('21). The exuberant Brown spirit chafed at a rash of peacetime desk jobs, boiled over in 1943. "I've got a carrier [the Kalinin Bay], and I'd like a job of work," he told Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. Snapped Spruance...