Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baggy pants and nonchalant waves to bystanders. Now it was all crisp creases, steel helmets and eyes staring mechanically front. As tight arrowhead formations of Soviet-built MIG jets thundered overhead, Cubans got their first glimpse of Russian missiles: the bulky surface-to-surface variety carried by coastal patrol boats, and the grey, sharp-nosed SA-2 antiaircraft rockets that presumably shot down a U-2 reconnaissance plane two months ago. As the missiles rolled by a Cuban TV announcer gloated: "These weapons can destroy an enemy plane at its highest flight ceiling...
...coastal defense missiles at four or five sites, plus twelve coastal patrol boats, each equipped with two ship-to-ship missiles apiece...
...from behind. My car started to spin and was hit on the right front fender. That spun it back a ways, and it was hit a third time, on the left front fender. It was bouncing around like a rubber ball." The accident-report diagram, said a state highway patrol lieutenant, looked "like somebody took a bunch of dominoes and just threw them down. The cars are pointed every which way. and at least a third of them are pointed back where they came from...
...overnight. Its Philadelphia clothing center dispatched 55,000 camouflage coverings for helmets. Some 850,000 yds. of parachute webbing moved swiftly to Memphis and Fort Bragg. Out of New York, the agency sent 1,000,000 Ibs. of frozen food to deployed naval units, stocked the ships on Cuba patrol with 45 days' worth of supplies. In one week 350,000 ft. of Kodak photo-reconnaissance film sped to Navy and Air Force flyers. The agency summoned 50 railroad presidents to Washington, got agreement on permanent boxcar rates on military cargo, rather than time-consuming itemizing...
...question was: would Nehru fight with or without aid? Army leaders seemed to have no idea where the Chinese lines were, or even whether the Reds were really withdrawing. Indian patrolling apparently had been stopped, and even aerial reconnaissance ruled out, for fear of Chinese retaliation. And this despite the fact that China had violated its "ceasefire" at least once: a Red patrol opened up on an Indian outpost, killing three soldiers and wounding four more...