Word: okinawa
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...Force 116 for Laos, report directly to Felt, who in turn will answer to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Late last week Weller flew into Tokyo for conferences with Vice Admiral Charles Griffin, Commander of the Seventh Fleet, checked up on plans and shot back to his headquarters on Okinawa...
...Special Forces, a growing nucleus in U.S. military operations. Their job is to drop far behind enemy lines to rally partisan bands and teach them the prickly science of guerrilla warfare. Though the group was organized in 1952, its training and operations (two overseas units: one in Okinawa, one in West Germany) have been largely soft-pedaled. They blossomed from the shadows last week after President Kennedy-who has been reading books on guerrilla warfare by Mao and Castro's leftist lieutenant, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara-ordered the Pentagon to step up the U.S.'s capability in unconventional warfare...
...course, the officers and enlisted men parachute into simulated target countries. If, for example, the country is Hungary, they must know how to find a street in Budapest, be able to talk knowingly about the principal Hungarian poets, and know the proper words for romance. The Pacific center at Okinawa consists of a core of 350 men, well versed in jungle warfare, who operate in flexible units ranging from a single man to teams of 30 or 40. During the crisis in Laos last month, Okinawa guerrilla fighters were packed and ready to go. Says Colonel Francis B. Mills...
...head." Board busting with the naked hand is a spectacular but comparatively recent demonstration of karate (literally, empty hands). Legend holds that the sport was started in the 6th century by an Indian Buddhist monk named Daruma Taishi, who taught it to Chinese monks. It was refined on Okinawa after 1600, introduced in the 1920s to Japan, where it quickly shared popularity with the gentle art of jujitsu and its systematized variation, judo. But where their aim is to use an opponent's own weight to throw him to the floor without necessarily injuring him, karate aims at increasing...
...increase the readiness of our forces in the Pacific." Cutting short a holiday at Hong Kong, the aircraft carriers Lexington and Bennington steamed off into the South China Sea, accompanied by a swarm of destroyers, plus troopships loaded with marines. On the U.S.'s island base of Okinawa, Task Force 116, made up of Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force units, got braced to move southward on signal...