Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exultant climax came two days later when 500,000 cheering Cubans crowded into the Plaza to watch Latin America's biggest military machine pass in review before Castro, President Osvaldo Dorticós, and Cuba's other commissars. While MIGs screamed overhead, Fidel's Communist-trained troops, cadets and members of the civilian Popular Defense Force clicked smartly past, followed by armored troop carriers, tanks, rocket launchers and a flock of missiles. "There is something else that is not seen," Castro told the crowd jubilantly, "and that is many weapons more. The quantity has grown...
...next few months, the U.S. public can hardly demand major victories-at least until a serious supply bottleneck is broken and Westmore land gets the extra combat divisions he has been pleading for. But as the U.S. troop level climbs toward 400,000 men, as the price of war begins to crimp Great Society programs and boost taxes, Americans may find it harder than ever to accept the long war predicted by the Administration. Military men talk in terms of years, and though other officials insist that "something will give" long before that, few would risk curtailing the U.S. buildup...
...slip away. With their departure came the fear that the shooting might start again, for both sides have kept forces in a state of combat alert. Egyptians and Saudis immediately began strengthening their joint peace-keeping force in Yemen, and Nasser canceled his plans for a long-postponed troop withdrawal. "Historically, this war has produced its fiercest battles during Ramadan when there is nothing else to do for 30 days but fast and fight," said one Egyptian veteran. "They get hungry and mean on both sides, and it's going to be a hellish job to enforce the ceasefire...
...Force officer; his wife Peppina, a sergeant in the Air Force, operated a Link trainer in India during World War II. Mike preferred the sea. As a quartermaster in the U.S. merchant marine in World War II he served on tankers, Liberty ships and troop transports, survived a German submarine attack that blew up half his convoy...
Nonetheless, the rapid troop buildup has caused horrendous cargo backups, which in turn limit the number of fighting men who can be supported in Viet Nam. To the dismay of field commanders, replacement troops have to be based in Okinawa and other reserve areas far from the front. With an average of 100 ships a day standing off their harbors, South Viet Nam's six biggest ports can at present handle only 17. As many as 40 ships at a time have been diverted to Japan, Okinawa and the Philippines to await docking space in Viet Nam; hundreds more...