Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pentagon meanwhile worked out broader plans. The Joint Chiefs transferred an attack carrier group with the flagship Ranger from the First Fleet along the west coast of the U.S. into Sharp's Pacific area. Thailand agreed to accept two squadrons of U.S. Air Force fighter-bombers. More than 50 F-102s and B57 Canberra jet bombers took up residence at airfields at Danang, Saigon and Bienhoa in South Viet Nam. Near Bienhoa, a B57 crashed into the jungle with Capt. Fred C. Cutrer Jr. and Lieut. Leonard L. Kaster aboard. Hampered by Communist guerrillas, rescuers were unable to find...
Always more steady than spectacular in his 37-year navy career, Sharp's presence on the Pacific powder keg is a comforting thought to his Pentagon colleagues. Says one admiral: "Sharp is a solidly trained professional. He is exactly the kind of man this country needs in the Pacific right...
During the Korean war, Sharp briefly commanded a destroyer squadron, then began a series of staff jobs. In 1960 he was appointed a vice admiral and served in the top-brass "E" Ring of the Pentagon as deputy chief of naval operations for plans and policy. There he earned a reputation as a sharp-tongued perfectionist. Recalls one officer: "There was no loose thinking, no folderol permitted. He is a forceful, concise, meticulous...
Sharp put in driving, twelve-hour days, and mastered the Pentagon's most prized art-the ability to absorb enormous amounts of information, then ladle it out in concise, organized form during high-level briefings. Both Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Maxwell Taylor and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara quickly became Sharp admirers, and last September he took over command of the Pacific Fleet. When the critical CINCPAC appointment came up earlier this year, Oley Sharp...
...perhaps the strongest sign of the Administration's determination to have a program at any price was its willingness to scuttle Adam Yarmolinsky, who has been on loan to the Poverty Corps from his Pentagon job as special assistant to Defense Secretary McNamara. Yarmolinsky is disliked by many Southern Congressmen because 1) he is a liberal, and 2) he helped set up a Kennedy-ordered commission to investigate racial discrimination in the armed forces, later took part in implementing its anti-discrimination proposals. Those same Southerners did not want Yarmolinsky messing around with the Poverty Corps. The coup...