Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Going." McNamara hurried back to his office and set the plans in motion. The Pentagon phoned Sharp. In turn, Sharp called the Navy's Pacific Fleet commander, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, stationed at nearby Makalapa Naval Base, told him: "We're going to clo it." Orders crackled through the Pacific as units of the Seventh Fleet were alerted. The carrier Constellation moved out of Hong Kong-about 500 miles from the Tonkin bases-with instructions to join the Ticonderoga as quickly as possible...
...rapid movement of naval and air units demonstrated the value of a flexible response capability in the U.S. military forces. So, of course, did the dramatic use of carrier airpower along the Gulf of Tonkin. That flexibility and the U.S. advantage in military technology are what made last week's firm U.S. military stance throughout Southeast Asia credible...
...fewer than four admirals.* His father was the nephew of President U. S. Grant, the Civil War giant, but Sharp was not the military type: he ran a general store. Young Oley, bored with the prospect of a merchant's life, wanted-and won-an appointment to the Naval Academy. He boxed, ran the 880 on an intramural track team, but produced a so-so scholastic record and in 1927 graduated 286th in a class...
During the Korean war, Sharp briefly commanded a destroyer squadron, then began a series of staff jobs. In 1960 he was appointed a vice admiral and served in the top-brass "E" Ring of the Pentagon as deputy chief of naval operations for plans and policy. There he earned a reputation as a sharp-tongued perfectionist. Recalls one officer: "There was no loose thinking, no folderol permitted. He is a forceful, concise, meticulous...
...press conference for visiting newsmen, Castro kept it up-this time about the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo. For two weeks, the Cubans have claimed U.S. marines shot and killed a Cuban sentry on the other side of the fence. The U.S. has flatly denied it. A group of Cubans suddenly fired a volley in the direction of a Marine guard post. Following orders, the mar-rines squeezed off two warning shots over the heads of the Cubans. No one was hit, says Washington, but an ambulance and a photographer immediately appeared on the Cuban side-and Castro was soon...