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...that has been unable since Viet Nam to feel truly comfortable asserting its global role began to feel gun-shy about protecting its national interests even in the strategically critical Persian Gulf. A nation that takes pride in the bravery of its fighting forces again tried to understand why servicemen were killed performing political missions in which they were not supposed to fight...
...similar session two weeks ago, military authorities began outlining their case against Corporal Arnold Bracy, Lonetree's alleged accomplice. In each instance, a Marine reviewing officer will consider whether the Government's case justifies a court-martial on espionage charges, which can carry the death penalty for servicemen...
...Marine-barracks bombing in Beirut, in which 241 servicemen died, was a tragedy of a new order for a Corps that had long ago grown inured to more than its share of casualties on the battlefield. Afterward the investigation by the Long commission faulted the Marine command for its lack of defensive preparations and for its ill-fated decision to house the men in a single barracks. The invasion of Grenada did little to burnish the Corps's fabled reputation as the "first to fight." Owing to the demands of interservice glory sharing, only 36 minutes after the Marines landed...
...young servicemen were known in Moscow for their parties at "Marine House," the name given the embassy quarters in which they lived. Two men occupied each tiny room, off long hallways on four of the building's nine floors. On Fridays, a "TGIF" (Thank God It's Friday) affair in the second-floor lounge of Marine House would include West European and American nannies who cared for the children of Western families. Some guests, however, were Soviet women who worked at the embassy until the Kremlin ordered all its citizens out of clerical and custodial jobs in the building last...
...HELL. YOU'VE HEARD IT said many times by shell-shocked servicemen, cynical sargeants and sunglassed supreme commanders. To judge from history, armed conflict has been humanity's favorite pastime, using everything imaginable: primitive wooden spears, bronze swords and shields, grenade launchers, cutting remarks, Agent Orange, frying pans and other domestic appliances, and tiny atoms which go boom in a big way. Yet one has to wonder why, if war is to be conceived as an unpleasant phenomenon, we humans spend so much time and effort thinking up excuses to get embroiled...