Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gulf of Tonkin. North Vietnamese shore batteries managed to hit the guided-missile destroyer U.S.S. Buchanan, killing one crew member and wounding seven. In the heaviest sea action of the week, U.S. ships on two occasions spotted on radar a number of North Vietnamese patrol boats moving toward them at high speed. The Navy opened fire, sinking three and possibly four of the vessels, and damaging two more...
Around 7 a.m. two Cambridge policemen in a patrol can drove into the Yard and, after steering down a footwalk between University and Mass Halls, calmly parked facing the pickets. Steiner immediately approached the patrolmen and asked them to leave; he also tries, without success, to find out who had dispatched them to the Yard...
During the first stages of the North Vietnamese offensive, gunfire from the U.S. destroyers that patrol the Tonkin Gulf succeeded in turning back 300 Communist troops from an attempted crossing of the Dong Ha River. Shortly before the Navy became engaged in the battle for Quang Tri province, TIME's Saigon Bureau Chief, Stanley Cloud, was a guest aboard one of those destroyers. There he was able to observe a vital but underreported U.S. contribution...
...night of February 3, 1961, the MPLA-their slogan "Victory is Certain"-responded by attacking a police patrol, the Prison of Sao Paulo, a police barracks, and the radio station of the capital city, Luanda. On the following day, February 4, the infuriated Portugese retaliated with a random massacre of Africans. By March there was a revolt led by another nationalist organization, the UPA, among the black peasants in the northwest of Angola, and liberation forces took control, of more than one third of the country, including the Cabinda enclave, where Gulf Oil Corporation had been making drilling explorations since...
...most worrisome actions by Arnheiter derive from his uncontrollable desire to join in the fight, even when the Vance is assigned to back-up patrol duty. He disobeys command headquarters and rushes headlong into the line of fire of the destroyers he is supposed to be guarding from rear attack; once in the action, Arnheiter pounds with vehemence non-existent Vietcong "nests" inland. Later, he files battle reports claiming a savior's laurels, and he recommends his crew for medals of bravery. He releases press statements detailing dangerous engagements with the enemy, when in fact all he has done...