Word: okinawa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every unofficial accounting, new air strikes against North Vietnamese bases are in prospect. And, poised on Okinawa ready to head instantly for South Viet Nam, is the U.S. Marine Corps' 9th Expeditionary Brigade. The 7,500-man force presumably would be used for perimeter defense of American military installations-but by no stretch of the imagination could the marines be considered "advisers...
...TIME, usually accurate, is mousetrapped by a lady. Mrs. Reich did not appear from hiding behind a bush to confront me in Okinawa [Feb. 12]. Actually, she was given the VIP treatment by airfield personnel and ushered to meet me. How come? She told them that she was my wife...
...husband is a marine, and he served his 15 months in Okinawa without his family (the tour of duty has since been shortened). I'm sure that I am just as devoted to him as Mrs. Norma Reich ap pears to be to her husband, but a combat-ready division in the Far East is no place for the wife and kiddies...
Other Moves. Even as he ordered the air strikes against North Viet Nam, President Johnson took other actions aimed at convincing the Communists that the U.S. really means business in Viet Nam. For one thing, he ordered an Okinawa-based battalion of 550 Marines armed with 54 Hawk ground-to-air missiles to Danang to protect scores of aircraft parked wingtip to wingtip on aprons. The Hawk is a killer at up to 45,000 ft. and at a distance of 22 miles, homes in on enemy aircraft by radar. The dispatch of the Hawks was merely an extra precaution...
...Okinawa is no tourist paradise, but womanly Norma Reich, 36, who arrived there Oct. 19 from Manhattan to see her husband, a major in the 3rd Marine Division, likes him so much that she wants to stay there. Try telling that to the Marines, who (unlike the Army and the Navy) regard Okinawa as a combat-ready assignment and limit dependents' visits to 60 days. So Norma took her 60, then flew to Japan and bounced back on a 60-day tourist visa that expires Feb. 12. The leathernecks are getting pretty chafed about it, but Norma is determined...