Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bangkok was barely awake when the marines landed. Wearing canvas-covered helmets and fatigues, burdened with rifles and full field packs, men of the 3rd Battalion, 9th U.S. Marines, walked ashore from two U.S. transports. There were no crowds, no bands, no girls with flowers.
It was all business. Asked what he thought of his assignment, Battalion Commander Lieut. Colonel Harold Adams answered curtly: "When the President tells us to go some place, we go." The marines were in Thailand not only by presidential order but at the invitation of the government of Premier Sarit...
Yet, at week's end, Betancourt was under new attack as 400 marines and 50 national guardsmen revolted in the port town of Carupano, 250 miles east of Caracas. The pro-Betancourt forces attacked and held the airport, swept into town. Outnumbered and outgunned, the rebel leader and most...
Assembly of the aluminum dome took students about four hours to complete. say that eight Marines also do the job in four hours.
Soon Starbird was organizing his task force behind the Lincoln Memorial in a decaying frame building recently vacated by the CIA. Amid cartons and bare walls, he summoned all the old test veterans he could find. As his force grew, so did the costs: up to $1,000,000 a...