Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...type barracks and enjoy plenty of movies and recreational facilities, including gymnasiums with basketball courts. In the nearby town of Sangpa-ri, they can buy a drink and find friendly feminine companionship. Another morale booster is the growing action itself. "When you get soldiers involved in an operation," says Lieut. Colonel Frank Romano, "their morale soars. They don't like boredom...
...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...
...more than state solvency that caused the Indianapolis Star to call him "all Hoosier from his head to his toes." His family has been in the state since 1821. He is a walking repository of Hoosier lore, with which he delights audiences. As Branigin expounds early Indiana history, Lieut. Colonel George Rogers Clark comes out a combination of Daniel Boone, Kit Carson and Davy Crockett; Clark's conquests of Kaskaskia, Vincennes and Cahokia sound only slightly less momentous than Saratoga, Trenton and Yorktown...
...that they needed a little experienced help, the new junta, including not only sergeants but privates and police patrolmen as well, summoned home Colonel John Bangura, a counselor in Sierra Leone's Washington embassy, to head an interim ruling council. As second in command, the junta brought home Lieut. Colonel Patrick Genda, the ambassador to Liberia. As they arrived in Freetown, both men were greeted by happy crowds clutching signs that read "Welcome to Freedom" and "Welcome, Our Saviors...
...airport outside Saigon, General William W. ("Spike") Momyer set up a special command whose sole mission was to orchestrate an aerial operation around Khe Sanh. Working over a sandbox model of the Khe Sanh area, two of the U.S. Army's most gifted tacticians-General Creighton Abrams and Lieut. General William B. Rosson-figured out the most logical places for Giap to concentrate men and supplies, then designated those areas as prime targets for U.S. planes. Dozens of reconnaissance aircraft were sent out to crisscross the area around Khe Sanh; even the heat from a match was enough...