Word: navymen
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...Navymen know that the Soviet boats are constantly probing U.S. submarine defenses, testing the detection and tracking proficiency of U.S. goblin hunters. "The Russians," says Vice Chief of Naval Operations James Russell, "are not building submarines in order to drink toasts at launching ceremonies." Russia's Nikita Khrushchev himself stated the submarine threat as baldly as possible: "Our submarines can block American ports and shoot into the American interior, while our rockets can reach any target. America's vital centers are just as vulnerable as NATO bases...
...wound up four days of secret conferences with Red China's Mao. In Washington U.S. officials were again on tenterhooks about a parley at the summit. In the quivering Middle East more U.S. ground troops were pouring ashore. But there beneath the peaceful, sunlit icecap, the 116 U.S. Navymen were making more pages for the history books than anybody else. They were setting a new sea tradition for their countrymen, to rate alongside Jones, Farragut, Peary, Byrd. The submarine was blunt-bowed Nautilus, world's first nuclear-powered ship. Nautilus' position: under the ice at the North...
...officer with the job of welding marines, paratroops, Navymen into a spear-point of U.S. diplomacy in one of the U.S.'s weirdest-ever military missions: the Navy's four-star Admiral James Lemuel Holloway Jr., 60. CINCNELM, Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean; CINCSPECOMME, Commander in Chief, Specified Command, Middle East. Said he: "One might think it would be frustrating to a military man to have such a role-lacking vigorous military action-but I do not think so. The U.S. responded to a request for assistance from the legal government of Lebanon...
...visiting Vim, now one of four potential U.S. cup defenders. There were better helmsmen available, critics argued, than Sceptre's 34-yearold skipper, Lieut. Commander Graham Mann, onetime sailing master for the royal family. As a matter of fact, some added, there were altogether too many navymen in the challenger's afterguard. They acted as if they knew it all, and were slow to get down to serious training...
...fleet - apparently make a point of staying outside the three-mile limit, thus exert their legal right to watch such U.S. coastal phenomena as missile tests at Cape Canaveral, thus present the U.S. Navy a legal opportunity to test antisubmarine hunter-killer techniques of sonar, radar, camera and what Navymen call "the Mark I eyeball" on real, live Red Star targets. Extent of U.S. submarine activity off Russia's shores: not known but presumably reciprocal...