Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond Korea. Clearly, the Communists' Tet offensive had much to do with the groundswell of pessimism. An unremitting stream of TV clips and still photographs-such as LIFE'S classic shot of wounded U.S. Marines stacked aboard a tank in Hue-daily underscored the war's horror...
Bare Skeletons. In the continental U.S., the Army last week had 800,000 ground troops, the Marines 180,000. Only about 125,000 of the total are combat ready and capable of being deployed within or without the country on short notices for crisis duty. Key units include two brigades...
Events reached a climax in 1963, when Dulavier ordered the American military mission, a single company of Marines who were training the army in police work, out of the country for "interference" in Haitian politics. A force of Haitian exiles, supported and armed by the new president of the Dominican...
Nearly half the ten U.S. combat divisions in Viet Nam are jammed into I Corps, the northernmost provinces of South Viet Nam, facing a potent concentration of Communist regulars (see overleaf). There is growing concern that the 5,000 Marines at the besieged outpost of Khe Sanh can be overrun...
By week's end they had gained nearly 500 precious yards inside the Citadel, pinning an enemy force of about 350 men to three small strongholds. The most important advance came when low-crouching U.S. Marines swept onto the long south wall overlooking the Perfume riverbank, a position that...