Word: leathernecked
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...Marine Corps began honorable discharge proceedings on Corporal Matthew McKeon, a staff sergeant drill instructor until he led six recruits to their death on a night march through the swamps of Parris Island, S.C. nearly three years ago. Troubled by a ruptured spinal disk, McKeon, twelve years a leatherneck, gets $5,700 in severance pay, said simply: "I hate to leave the corps...
...upon last year's tragic "death march" of a recruit platoon into the Carolina swamps. Made with the blessing and help of the Marine Corps, The D.I. might otherwise almost seem to be anti-Corps propaganda, su ruggedly, almost brutally does it portray the making of a young leatherneck...
...leatherneck maker, Sergeant Jim Moore (Webb), chews callow boys and spits marines. He shouts fear into his boots, and they shout courage back at him. His undeviating training code: if I don't almost kill you in this process, an enemy will some day make you "dead, dead, dead!" The fragile axis of the plot, a moral weakling from a Corps-dedicated family, naturally turns eventually into the pride of his platoon. Sergeant Webb surprises in the end. Just when he might be expected, for the good of the Marines, to mow down his whole motley lot of boots...
...leading a land battle to save the fabled carrier Enterprise from the scrap heap. Among the other World War II brass on hand: Admiral Richard L ("Close-In") Conolly, 65, a past master at firing his 16-inchers into the whites of their eyes on enemy-held beaches; Leatherneck General Gerald C. Thomas, 62. mastermind of the prime invasive 1st Marihe Division on Guadalcanal and in Korea...
...defense of the corps. Soon afterwards the President formally apologized to Gates, and the Marines' survival was assured. His Commandant's term at an end, Cliff Gates served out his time as chief of the Marine Corps Schools at Quantico, Va. This week old (60) Leatherneck Gates, D.S.C., Navy Cross, D.S.M., Legion of Merit, Silver Star, was retired with a 17-gun salute and an elaborate ceremony. "Tripe," hard-boiled Cliff Gates called it, blinking down the mist in his eyes. The country needs toughening up, he said, and the Marine Corps needs "tough fighters." After all, "that...