Word: lancelotians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, at the Lancelotian capital of Camelot, Brigadier General E. Hunter Hurst, in charge of the Marine brigade, lands in a helicopter, is met at the airport by the U.S. Ambassador to Lancelot, who quickly briefs the general on the situation while anti-Ameri can mobs close in on them. Fortunately, the ambassador and the general make it to a car that whisks them away into town...
...began Feb. 23 and ends this week, employed an armada of 60 ships, including three aircraft carriers, 520 Marine and Navy planes and helicopters, 3,200 motor vehicles; 66 tanks, 96 artillery pieces, 20,000 sailors and 25,000 marines, among whom were 5,000 playing the part of Lancelotian natives-men and women-and infiltrators from Merlin...
...Krulak, 52, a toughened specialist in guerrilla and counterinsurgency warfare. Krulak and his staff began planning the exercises in September, finished with a four-inch-thick "script" that covered the histories of the make-believe countries, the developing political situations there, and the events that led to the Lancelotians' request for U.S. military aid. Also in the script: 2,000 "incidents," or problems, with which Krulak wanted his people encumbered, such as the pesky natives on the beach, a Lancelotian request for school textbooks, a native woman who wanted the Marines to arrange a baptism, scores of requests...
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