Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Poindexter. Admiral Poindexter had gotten some wind of this earlier, but he didn't pursue it. He is a fine naval officer. In keeping with that tradition, even if you are asleep in your bunk when your ship runs aground, you take the responsibility. He took the responsibility...
Born in San Antonio, North attended school in Philmont, N.Y., and later entered the U.S. Naval Academy. At Annapolis he was known as a "tough kid," and was brigade boxing champ. "Reckless? No," says an old classmate. "Wild? Yes. He liked to have fun." After graduation, North joined the Marines and went to Viet Nam, where he led a platoon and engaged in counterinsurgency warfare. He was wounded in combat, later winning a Silver Star and a Purple Heart...
...Harvard-affiliated hospital has announced plans to expand into the new real estate development at the Charlestown Naval Yard, a move which will increase its research facilities by 40 percent, officials said today...
...mission -- nestling, he now admits, among crates of weapons. Yet McFarlane told the Washington Post in an interview published Thursday, "I think it was a mistake to introduce any element of arms transfers into it." Indeed, the Post account had him advising Reagan in a bedside conference at Bethesda Naval Hospital in July 1985, when the President was recuperating from colon surgery, that it would be "wrong and unwise" to accept an Israeli suggestion that arms be traded for hostages. Reagan reportedly agreed...
...screenplay is reviewed by officials at the Department of Defense and by each of the services involved. The Pentagon ends up rejecting many projects that come its way on the grounds that they distort military life and situations. An Officer and a Gentleman, which like Top Gun dealt with naval aviation training, was turned down because of its rough language, steamy sex and, to the military mind, inaccurate view of boot camp. The Pentagon said no to WarGames because the military contends that a teenage computer hacker could never crack the U.S. strategic defense system. Even Rambo's lone-wolf...