Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The hotels of Saigon last week were jammed with officers of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. The once-neglected airfield at Bien Hoa, 20 miles northeast of Saigon, is now receiving a steady stream of Globemasters that unload tons of electric generators, radar equipment, trucks and Quonset...
Cruising offshore was the U.S.S. Princeton with 1,300 combat-ready marines aboard. Admiral John H. Sides, Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet, was in Saigon, en route, he said, to Thailand. Asked if it were true that much of the Seventh Fleet was already in Vietnamese waters, the admiral replied...
Thus, under the regulations, it did not matter last week that the Army does not like to use the nonskeds, or that a Pentagon investigation of the performance records of 23 companies-including Imperial -was in the works. It did not matter that the Civil Aeronautics Board was about to...
I only hope that our marines will defend Guantanamo as valiantly as the French have defended Bizerte.
Died. General Randolph McCall Pate, 63, softspoken, hard-driving logistics expert who commanded the Marine Corps from 1956 to 1960; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. A World War I Army private who entered the Marines from Virginia Military Institute in 1921, Pate directed supply operations at Guadalcanal, did staff work...