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Getting the story called for reporting by TIME correspondents from Oklahoma to Okinawa. Principally, it called for hard and fast work in the field by Hong Kong Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch (a Marine sergeant in World War II) and two of his correspondents, James Wilde and Peter Forbath. Their first task was to find the right man for the cover. They nominated-as representative and symbolic-Lieut. Colonel Robinson Risner, 40, and the editors readily agreed...
...That Ship. The marines were shot at once during the landing operation, when a Viet Cong rifleman hit the wing of a C-130 Hercules transport as it approached Danang with a load of marines from camps on Okinawa. But no real damage was done...
...took just 65 minutes to put 1,400 marines ashore with rifles, machine guns, rocket and grenade launchers. At Danang, the brigade's other battalion came in the easy way-by air from Okinawa. Both battalions came prepared for heavy combat: they had 105-mm. howitzers, M48 medium tanks, 106-mm. recoilless rifles...
...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...
...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...