Word: navymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, his excellent administrative record placed him high on the appointment list. He has degrees from Yale and Harvard Law, and Navymen will find he retains the ruggedness demonstrated during his days in the Marine Corps, when he fought at Guadalcanal and Okinawa. Chafee, 46, chose the Navy job because he does not have to "commit himself for life," indicating that he is likely to run for office again in Rhode Island. His experience at Defense will not hurt. Chafee's tiny state has three major Navy installations, which annually pour some $174 million in payrolls into its economy...
...Guantánamo, known as "Gitmo" to Navymen, was granted to the U.S. under a 1903 treaty signed after the Spanish-American War. The base covers 45 sq. mi., contains a supply depot and repair facilities, and is visited by about 130 Navy vessels a year...
...whole apparatus, bent on hitting a golf ball smartly, tips and convolutes and lunges, the Japanese admirals clutching each other for support in the main control center up in the head as the structure rocks and creaks. And when the golf shot is on its way the navymen get to their feet and peer out through the eyes and report: 'A shank! A shank! My God, we've hit another shank...
...another day, the rising sun was just beginning to shimmer over the Long Tau when Chief Signalman Bob Monzingo clamped on the black beret worn by U.S. Navymen in Viet Nam, stepped aboard PBR (Patrol Boat River) 756 and headed for a rendezvous with the fully loaded U.S. tanker Kalydon. So did the Viet Cong. Three hours later, the battle exploded. From the Long Tau's east bank, ambushers fired five Communist-made B40 rockets at the tanker. All five missed, and Monzingo's two-boat force foamed toward the attackers, blasting away with M-60 machine guns...
...radio message using Scorpion's call sign, "Brandywine," and the discovery of a 250-ft.-long steel hulk in 180 ft. of water off Cape Henry, Va., raised hopes that the missing sub might be found, by week's end she was still silent. The radio signal, Navymen bitterly concluded, had probably been a hoax; the hulk proved to be that of a World...