Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officers and men of the Sixth Fleet know from experience that the Mediterranean lies at the heart of the most volatile, least predictable region in the world. But beyond all local questions hovers the big one: Can the Sixth Fleet survive if the Russians turn their high-flying bombers against the easily radar-spotted targets in the middle of the all but landlocked Mediterranean...
...Question. Amid the continuing echoes of the crisis, the 40,000 men of the Sixth Fleet were back last week on their arduous routine patrolling-up to twelve hours a day on watch broken by chow lines, snatched sack time, ships' movies, and mail brought in almost daily by helicopter and high-line-with a high level of discipline and a low level of petty offenses that reflected superb morale. "This," said one ensign, comparing the salad days of Mediterranean duty to the present paucity of ports, "is no all-expense tour...
...lonely. If they do make a major effort against us, we'll at least serve a useful purpose in diverting them. If I can survive the first blows, I'll be able to do a lot of hitting myself. Wars are won by remnants, and the Sixth Fleet is going to be a pretty sturdy remnant. All I have to do is survive the first 48 hours. And I'm going...
...British and led them to their decision not to advise the U.S. of their plan to attack Egypt with the French and Israelis. Acheson does not necessarily approve the attack on Egypt, but thinks that once it was begun, the U.S. should have used the threat of its fleet, if necessary, to guarantee that the attack would be successful and bring Nasser's downfall. The U.S., he adds, should never have taken its case against the aggressors to the United Nations until the Suez Canal was in British-French hands, and there, somehow managing not to look like aggressors...
...southern entrance to the Suez Canal. Then he slid over the side to mark the sunken wreck of the Egyptian frigate Abikir. Minutes later the Danish tug Protector chugged past to start work on a wrecked dredger blockading passage eight miles farther north. Thus at last the U.N. salvage fleet began its huge job of clearing the 40 wrecks that block the Suez Canal...