Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night the Sixth Fleet is kept in a state of "instant readiness" to handle its many and unpredictable assignments. It is poised to inhibit Soviet volunteers in the Arab world, to provide air cover (if sought) for the armies of a dozen friendly nations, to support and guard the southern flank of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to land marines anywhere that they are needed, and even to reinforce the U.S. Air Force (if called upon) in a strategic bombing northward over the Black Sea to Moscow. It is uniquely fitted to move in on crises ranging from local riot...
...ashore a reinforced Marine battalion that will soon be equipped with atomic rocket weapons. Task Force 66, recently detached, but on constant call, is a submarine hunter-killer group led by Antietam, a 30,000-ton attack carrier with 80 planes. All together, this taut and lethal fleet consumes more than 50,000 tons of fuel per month. Although NATO supply bases are available for emergencies, the U.S. Navy expects that they will be easy enemy targets in wartime; the Sixth Fleet, therefore, brings most of its supplies all the way over from the Eastern...
...Sixth Fleet every carrier pilot is "special-weapons qualified," meaning that he is trained to handle atomic bombs. As of now, Admiral Brown's attack squadrons, paced by prop-driven Douglas AD Skyraiders, can deliver a low-level atomic attack at ranges up to 1,000 miles. Late this month the 60,000-ton Forrestal will relieve Coral Sea, bringing to the Mediterranean the Douglas A3D Skywarrior, a 600-m.p.h. twin-jet bomber with a range that can reach all the way to Moscow, if necessary, from anywhere in the Eastern Mediterranean...
...Hands. During World War II, Brown served notably as 1) a member of Fleet Admiral Ernest King's staff in Washington, 2) commander of the escort carrier Kalinin Bay in the Pacific, 3) chief of staff of Carrier Division One from Leyte Gulf to the shores of Japan. Eleven more years of staff work and carrier command in the Pentagon and Mediterranean won him his third star and command of the Sixth Fleet, which he immediately began running his own way. "I cannot tell you how exciting it is," he wrote to his close friends, "to hold...
...night of Oct. 29, when Israel attacked Egypt, the Sixth Fleet was busy with a complex landing exercise in Suda Bay, Crete. It speedily reboarded its marines and beached equipment overnight and headed east. Soon its destroyer groups and attack transports were slipping into Haifa, Gaza and Alexandria to pick up U.S. citizens and U.N. workers while the sleek grey carriers maneuvered in battle formations below the horizon. At one point, combat-ready marines were all set to storm through to Cairo just in case the Egyptians tried to prevent Americans from leaving, but the marines relaxed when the Egyptians...