Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Project directors insisted that only pure coincidence had produced one finalist each from the Marines, Air Force and Navy. The big three, they said, were selected after 22 months of training and study during which scientists, psychologists and engineers carefully graded their performances. Topflight test pilots all, the astronauts dived...
¶The claim that marines have never deserted is belied by the facts: during the Civil War, marine desertions equaled the maximum strength of the corps.
Growled Major General R. B. Luckey. commanding officer at Camp Lejeune: "I don't know whether or not there were any marines at Tripoli. How the hell would I know? But I've believed it for 33 years, and I'm going to go right on believing...
Many marines suspected that McKean's attack was not without rancor: as a colonel, he was in charge of training at Parris Island in 1956 during the tragic drowning of six boots on a night-time disciplinary march through Ribbon Creek. Although he was not officially blamed, McKean voluntarily...
At the Marines' Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, many a leatherneck's family has been living for months in cramped trailer quarters. For exercise they can stroll out to stare wistfully at 123 Marine houses that for nine months have needed only a day's work to...