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...best. That has been the Marines' coda from Tripoli to Belleau Wood, from Guadalcanal to Inchon. But in the past few years, these gleaming images have dissolved into others: blood-spattered rubble in Beirut, interservice turf battles in Grenada, a can-do lieutenant colonel wearing a medal-bedecked uniform while invoking the Fifth Amendment, furtive Moscow nights of sex for secrets. Says former California Congressman Pete McCloskey, a twice-wounded Marine veteran of Korea: "When I saw 200-plus Marines in Beirut bunched up in violation of every standard precept, I winced a lot. When I saw Ollie North...
...long ago grown inured to more than its share of casualties on the battlefield. Afterward the investigation by the Long commission faulted the Marine command for its lack of defensive preparations and for its ill-fated decision to house the men in a single barracks. The invasion of Grenada did little to burnish the Corps's fabled reputation as the "first to fight." Owing to the demands of interservice glory sharing, only 36 minutes after the Marines landed at Pearls airport, the rival Army Rangers parachuted onto the airstrip at the other end of the island at Point Salines...
...Soviets needled the Americans about their predicament. "I thought the fear was of Reds under every bed," deadpanned Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov. He expressed mock surprise that "the famous U.S. Marines who were victorious on Grenada" had been defeated by "the charms of blond spies." The U.S., however, was not laughing...
Associate Professor of History Bradford A. Lee will join eight to 10 other War College professors in teaching a course which covers "military strategy from Thucydides and the Peloponnesian war to Grenada, " he said. Lee said he chose the War College, despite offers from several other schools...
...problem, not the solution, in his formula. Admittedly, Reagan loves government as ceremony and majesty. The rituals of his office, so irksome to other Presidents, were the things he liked best and did best. He gave out medals and awards enthusiastically (and generously: the military granted more medals for % Grenada than actual troops landed there). Heroic government, on the epic scale, was his favorite movie -- the happy Nuremberg rally...