Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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As commander of Military Assistance Command, Viet Nam (MAC-V), he has under him all U.S. servicemen-115,000 soldiers, 10,000 sailors, 17,500 airmen, 45,000 marines, 250 coast guardsmen-in the country. More than 1,000 Army helicopters and light aircraft are his responsibility, as well as...
In Operation Golden Fleece last fall, he deployed 10,000 marines throughout northern paddyfields to give Viet Nam peasants the most valuable present of all-security to harvest and sell their crops without interference. One result was that the Viet Cong had to boost their 10% "rice tax" on farmers...
Blindman's Buff. At every level, the U.S. is locked in a complex, unpredictable-and brutal-struggle. Last month three U.S. marines and eight South Vietnamese captured by the Viet Cong on a patrol 80 miles southwest of Danang were savagely executed. One American was shot six times in...
Ninth Circle. When he was not under fire, the U.S. fighting man was enduring living conditions that would have made Dante's ninth circle seem cozy. He was mired in mud when it rained, choked by dust when it did not. There were leeches and lice, poisonous vipers and...
"Everything rusts or mildews," complained Navy Lieut. Commander Richard Escajeda, head surgeon of the marines' "Charlie Med" hospital at Danang. "The sterilized linen never dries. Bugs crawl into our surgical packs. Mud is everywhere." An earthier-or muddier-protest came from a jungle-hardened trooper in the 1st Battalion...