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Late Tuesday night Kovic informed the 1990 Class Committee through a spokesperson that he was too ill to make the six-hour airplane trip from Los Angeles to Boston. Kovic is a parapalegic, having been wounded while fighting in the Vietnam War with the Marines.
On the record, Marine and Army officials insist that their units do not overlap. Behind the scenes, however, Army officers charge that the Marines may be fine for assaulting enemy shorelines but "can't engage beyond the beaches." Marine Brigadier General John Sheehan counterattacked last fall by claiming that an...
Powell has a point in saying that the three forces do not exactly duplicate one another. The Marines, prepositioned in three expeditionary forces for power projection overseas, have the capacity to come ashore and sustain themselves for 30 days without further help. Their units come equipped with their own close...
In an analysis of the Pentagon, defense specialist Richard Halloran argues that the best way to eliminate the glut of low-intensity forces would be to meld the Marines into the Army. Although many experts agree with Halloran, any move in that direction would encounter huge political land mines. Harry...
As the budget battle rages, the Marines will take heavy hits, but they seem sure to prevail once again, a testament to their political firepower.