Word: garrisoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other moves, more armored personnel carriers were ordered overseas to provide U.S. infantrymen with necessary mobility. The 6,500-man U.S. garrison in West Berlin received first shipments of fast-firing (750 rounds a minute) M-14 rifles to replace obsolescent Garands and Browning automatic rifles. Ready to head overseas were 1,800 paratroopers and 72 supersonic F-100 fighters, all scheduled to participate in a NATO air-sea-ground defense maneuver dubbed "Operation Checkmate." At Checkmate's close the paratroops will return home-but the planes probably will remain in Europe...
After the long, humdrum postwar years of peacetime garrison and army schools. Smith was marked as a comer in 1931 by Lieut. Colonel George Marshall, then assistant commandant of the Army's infantry school at Fort Benning, Ga. A decade later, Beedle Smith was at Marshall's side, as Secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when the U.S. entered World...
...some surrounding gardens. When Dahomey won its independence from France last year, it asked Portugal to turn the tiny enclave into an embassy or consulate. Lisbon bluntly refused, and continued to administer Fort St. John as a full-fledged colony, defended by a pair of ancient brass cannon and garrisoned by a commandant and one assistant. The Dahomeyans finally told the Portuguese to get out by July 31. On the day of the deadline, the two-man garrison set fire to Fort St. John and the residency and departed, suitcases in hand, as Dahomeyan firemen raced to the scene. After...
...leaders he repeatedly counseled moderation and faith in General de Gaulle. It was Bourguiba who most notably, though unsuccessfully, urged the F.L.N. to accept the French ceasefire. But the Bizerte base was an irritant, particularly as the French no longer considered it essential, and have been gradually reducing its garrison...
...wise, the camper with a new tent will set it up first in his own backyard, cook a little something on his stove, light his lantern and pump up his air mattress. "Everyone should do his staff work before he starts out," says Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Lemuel Garrison. "Too many people think they have inherited Daniel Boone's knowledge as well as his spirit. They haven...