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...served in Haiti, at Quantico and in Washington. He took a competitive examination for the Ecole Supérieure de Guerre in Paris (then renowned as one of the world's great theory-of-warfare schools) and won it handily. Because work at the école was fantastically hard, marines who attended it called it "a period of great suffering." While Smith toiled like a galley slave, his daughters studied geometry in French. During vacations the family toured Europe, passing up nightclubs for Baedeker's monuments...
...time war came, friendly, fresh-faced Newsman Fielder had moved on, was working on the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps as a private early in 1942, was soon commissioned and assigned to train officer candidates at Quantico, Va. Later, he was given command of a company of the sth Marine Division. Then the Marine Corps assigned Captain Fielder to perfect his Chinese at the University of California. When World War II ended, Fielder went back to his true calling, took a job as night city editor for the Associated Press in San Francisco, hoping...
Boarding the gleaming white presidential yacht Williamsburg, the nation's No. 1 hired man took a leisurely overnight cruise down the Potomac to Quantico, Va., with the ship hardly moving faster than the current, which suited the poker players in the presidential quarters fine. "I could have walked down faster," groused a Secret Sendee...
Down the Barrel. At Quantico, the President-whose visit to the Marines was long overdue-saw a thunderous show. From a canvas-covered grandstand, he watched marines storm objectives with tanks, flame throwers, bazookas, phosphorous grenades and 500-m.p.h. bombing attacks. A Marine major kept up a breezy ringside commentary, improving the slower moments by hinting broadly, for the President to hear, that the Marines could do even better with more equipment. A simulated carrier attack by seven banana-shaped helicopters demonstrated how troops could land behind enemy forts and disgorge their equipment in 30 seconds...
Part of this volume, the committee found, had indeed come from luxury goods. Example: The Marine PX at Quantico, Va. had refrigerators, $250 cameras, television sets and outboard motors in stock...