Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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New enemy thrusts were under way (see THE WORLD) as Johnson flew to North Carolina and California for a personal goodbye to some of the 10,500 soldiers and Marines being dispatched to Viet Nam. The reinforcements will bring total U.S. military strength in the country to 510,500, allowing...
Many senior officers have believed for some time that the Administration will inevitably have to draw on the Army National Guard and Reserve as well as the Marines' standby division. The Administration had hoped to avoid this disruptive measure, giving in only last month when it mobilized 14,000...
Russian Marines. Admiral Gorshkov s ships are not only wide-ranging but among the world's newest and best equipped. Unlike the U.S. and Britain, both of which emerged from World War II with large surface fleets, Russia had to start practically from scratch after the war. The result: while...
Admiral Gorshkov is also developing a new force that will give the Russians the ability to intervene in trouble spots, much as the U.S. did in Lebanon and the Dominican Republic. The Soviet navy has built its first carrier, a new 25,000-tonner called the Moscow, which is now...
The top Marine at Khe Sanh is Colonel David E. Lownds, 47, the mustachioed commander of the 26th Marine Regiment, who oversees the defense of the base from an underground bunker left over by its original French occupants. Sitting in a faded lawn chair, he seldom rests, night or day...