Word: guam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carried 1,200-mile-range A-1 Polaris missiles. Now the Navy is on the way toward fitting most of the 41 missile-equipped subs with the 2,500-mile-range A-3 Polaris. Nuclear energy gives them unparalleled mobility and almost indefinite sea-keeping capacity; based in Spain, Guam and Scotland, they patrol up to 60 days each, returning to port to change their 140-man crews. Not surprisingly, the Soviet Union has tried to follow suit, is believed to have up to 15 nuclear-powered subs; each is equipped with three 500-mile-range missiles...
After four years, two of them as a navigator in SAC B-52s, I'm ready to hang it up. I haven't enjoyed much of it, but then nobody guaranteed me that I would. I have seen England, Hawaii, Okinawa, Bermuda, Guam, South Dakota. I've pulled Alert away from my family an average of three days a week. I've climbed over, banged on, shined flashlights into, and learned to love "The Bomb." I've seen Viet Nam from the air 21 times, and I've had my teeth worked...
...tunnels and bunkers. As the enemy came up for air, the overcast and seemingly empty sky began raining bombs. For 47 minutes they fell in lethal, patterned precision, laying open the ridge in a giant surgical slash. The bombs came from 24 high-flying B-52s guided in from Guam by "sky spot" radar controllers on the ground. Within five minutes after the last bomb had burst, G.I.s were swarming over the ridge-or what was left of it. The scattered pockets of resistance that had survived the lash of destruction were soon wiped...
...which takes at least some of the uncertainty out of pre-Army life? Come off it Gary, David, Douglas, Paul! How about a little less whining and a little more determination as we thank God that we were not born in time for Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Omaha Beach and Guam. Those young guys were inconvenienced too, you know. Because they were, you've got your precious freedom and college education...
...Allies have been hitting the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese reinforcements where they live (see map), seizing enemy stockpiles of rice and salt and weapons. Even in the enemy redoubts where ground forces have not yet penetrated, the threat of the bombs from high-flying Guam-based B-52s, falling like rain from a silent sky, haunts the Communists' sleep, keeps them on the move...