Word: uss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American lives, but the American Empire is less secure today than when Johnson became its ruler. Even the Congressmen who still support the war are aware that something has gone drastically wrong, that America, for one reason or another, is in terrible trouble. While Johnson spoke, the USS Enterprise, the largest ship ever built, not far from home in a friendly sea, was blowing itself up with its own bombs...
...doors opened and the men got out, the spell was broken--for an instant. After the silence there was a brief squeal of joy from wives and children seeing the man they were looking for, but then there was abrupt silence again. The men wore blue denim jackets with "USS Pueblo" written in faded letters on the back. They had blue denim caps and all were pale. They walked quietly, most without smiling, down the ramp and into the crowd. A few hugged wives and children, but it wasn't a wild kissing-the-soil scene from...
...campaign bus, Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato staked his political life on support of Japan's security pact with the U.S. It was no small gamble. Only last January, riot police had to use fire hoses to control more than 800 militantly antiwar students who tried to keep the USS Enterprise crew from taking shore leave in Sasebo. In April, Tokyo housewives marched in protest against the opening of a hospital for U.S. troops wounded in Viet Nam, and a month later a wave of fear swept the nation with reports that Sasebo's waters showed evidence of high...
Upon being commissioned in 1941, he served as engineering officer aboard the USS Hurlburt until February...
...next command at sea was the destroyer USS Eaton on which he served from 1956 to 1958. In 1958 he was made commanding officer of the Military Sea Transportation Service office in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he is currently stationed...