Word: leathernecks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Krulak was taken off Choiseul in 1943 aboard a PT boat skippered by a young Navy lieutenant named John F. Kennedy. Two decades later, President Kennedy chose Krulak as a special adviser on guerrilla war in Viet Nam. The leatherneck's rosy report, based on a 1963 inspection trip, contrasted with a State Department official's gloomy prognosis shortly before President Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination. "Were you two gentlemen," asked Kennedy, "in the same country...
...TIME IN HELL (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Lee Marvin, an old Leatherneck himself, narrates this study of the U.S. Marine Corps's World War II campaigns from Guadalcanal to Okinawa...
...sentenced to 45 days' restriction to quarters, a $20 fine and reduction to private for disobeying orders. Nor did the prospect of this punishment induce Mary Elizabeth to resume soldierly ways or to put on her Marine uniform again. When her case is finally reviewed, the lady Leatherneck, who enlisted straight from school in Grand Junction, Colo., hopes to be reduced to the rank of civilian...
Died. General Harry Schmidt, 81, Marine commander, who on Feb. 19, 1945, led two Leatherneck divisions onto the beaches of Iwo Jima, a tiny sliver of land won only after six weeks of violent battle that cost 5,500 U.S. and some 20,000 Japanese lives; of arteriosclerosis; in San Diego...
Nervous Cat. Nabors is both a representative and a caricature of the noble American rustic. As Gomer, a leatherneck Pfc, he wears a gee-whiz expression, spouts homilies out of a lopsided mouth and lopes around uncertainly like a plowboy stepping through a field of cow dung. He is a walking disaster area. When his drill sergeant chastises him for "taking the taxpayer's money without putting in a day's work," the hapless recruit returns part of his paycheck-and fouls up the bookkeeping system of the entire Marine Corps. Yet in the end, Gomer...