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...plainly too diminutive to meet the Navy's minimum height requirement (5 ft. 6 in.). So Victor Krulak persuaded a buddy to hit him on the head in hopes of raising a bump big enough to narrow the stature gap. That ploy failed, so-bloody but unbowed-Krulak petitioned and won the right to join the U.S. Marines as the shortest man in the corps. His Annapolis instructors also rated him low-among the bottom 10% of the class of '34 in military aptitude...
...distinguished Marine career is coming to an end. At 5 ft. 4¾ in. and 134 lbs., Lieut. General Victor H. Krulak, 55, hardly seems the sort to be nicknamed "the Brute." But that's the handle; it's fond and it fits. Strong and scrappy as a wire-haired terrier, Krulak was commissioned in 1934, won a Navy Cross (second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor) in the Solomon Islands in 1943, became one of the youngest generals in Marine history at the age of 43 in 1956, and helped to map U.S. strategy in Viet...
Floridian "Chappie" Chapman, 54, was the dark horse choice between two other, better-known lieutenant generals, both also 54: popular, barrel-chested Lewis Walt and acerbic, shrimp-sized (5 ft. 4 in., 134 Ibs.) Victor H. ("Brute") Krulak. Walt and Krulak have vastly more combat experience than Chapman and both are experts on Viet Nam. Both are also controversial. Waltwhom the President last week named assistant commandant-has been criticized, unjustly, for not being aggressive enough during his two years as the Marine commander in Viet Nam. Krulak, a favorite of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and President Kennedy...
Quiet Confidence. The choice between the generals was not an easy one. Each had a clique of supporters actively rooting for him. Noting that Chapman was senior in time-in-rank to Walt and Krulak, Johnson remarked: "One man said you could flip a coin and any one of three or four would be ideally equipped...
...blond, burly classmate (Yale Law, '40) of such notables as Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Potter Stewart and Poverty Potentate Sargent Shriver, Locke was a Navy gunnery officer during World War II; his ship landed a Marine force in the Solomons led by Lieut. Colonel Victor ("Brute") Krulak-now Marine commander i.i the Pacific. During his nine-month stint in Rawalpindi, Locke skillfully reassured President Mohammed Ayub Khan of continued American interest after the IndianPakistani border...