Word: mccoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the stately carriers and dashing destroyers of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, there exists an ugly, unlikely division of four ships that is known as "McCoy's Navy." Its officers and men are recognizable from afar by their luxuriant beards and deep suntans, and the approach of their elderly craft can be detected by the clatter of chipping hammers pecking away at rusty decks. The ships themselves have high, unsheered bows and an ungainly 12-knot waddle, while the most advanced piece of electronic gear aboard any of them is a popcorn machine. Yet Inshore Fire Support Division...
...football is growing so wildly popular that no one can wait for the official gong. Many games are sellouts, and those who can't get in see it all on TV. What's more, the fans hardly even care that it isn't the real McCoy...
...A/3C) W. B. KOEHLER McCoy A.F.B...
...PATRICE McCOY...
...Allen W. McCoy, 40, a big, Texas A & M-educated industrial engineer for a Dallas steel fabricator, of whom Defense Attorney Melvin Belli said: "I liked him, but not entirely from the start. Ruby liked him from the start...