Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jeremiads, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's request for $287 million to buy 20 F-lllBs for Navy testing was rudely rejected by the committee, which approved only $147,900,000 for eight of the swing-wing ships. The higher cost per plane includes design changes and ground-support gear as well as custom fabrication of the plane itself...
...world's most advanced and versatile jet. It has also become something less-and more-than either the Air Force or Navy wanted. As originally envisioned, the Air Force version would be capable of ducking under enemy radar and making a 400-mile supersonic dash just above the ground before hitting its target; the Navy model would be light enough to fly off carriers and provide air defense for the fleet. Because both services wanted a jet with sliding wings that would allow it to take off in short spaces, land slowly, sprint at Mach 2.5 or loiter...
Feet tied and hands clutched painfully behind their backs, the U.S. Army officers snaked and wiggled on their stomachs over the dusty, rock-strewn ground. "This way, sickie, crawl to me!" cried one captor. "You're ugly, you know that, sickie? Crawl-remember, we've got a lot worse waiting...
...cannot completely cut off supplies to North Viet Nam, or the arms and men Hanoi sends south, McNamara's inescapable conclusion was that the U.S. should continue bombing the North at roughly the present level, using the air campaign as "a supplement to," not "a substitute for" the ground war of counterinsurgency in the South. "I am convinced," said McNamara, "that the final decision in this conflict will not come until we and our allies prove to North Viet Nam that she cannot win in the South. The tragic and long-drawn-out character of that conflict...
Bunkers of rock and earth and 5-ft. -thick concrete gun turrets dominate each piece of high ground. A labyrinth of thick-walled tunnels connects the whole. Garages have been dug out for tanks and vehicles; 20-ft.-high earth work barricades protect artillery em placements, and the miles of minefields are dotted with tank traps. The enemy is prepared to defend the heights with two armored brigades, one mechanized infantry brigade, one mobile brigade, 18 battalions of artillery, and six in fantry brigades, each with its own tank battalion - a total of some...