Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Destroyed on the Ground? The newest military contribution to the defense debate came from the Strategic Air Command's General Thomas Power, who flew in from his headquarters at Omaha to address the American Legion's National Security Commission in Washington. Fortnight ago Power warned that the Russians with a force of just 300 missiles -half intercontinental ballistic missiles and half intermediate-range ballistic missiles-could destroy the U.S.'s 100-odd air bases at home and overseas and "virtually wipe out our entire nuclear strike capability within a span of 30 minutes...
...alert, large-scale procurement of the B70 Mach 3 bomber, and a big military space program -"control of space may well mean control of the globe in a future war." Power was seconded on the space argument by Major General John B. Medaris, chief of the Army Ordnance Missile Command. In an interview with Missiles and Rockets, on the eve of his retirement, Medaris blasted as "utter nonsense" the Administration's dividing the space program into civilian and military spheres...
...will not mean a "deterrent gap." In 1963, explains Defense Secretary Thomas Gates, the U.S. will not be relying solely or even mainly on ICBMs for its main deterrent power. The big punch will still be the H-bombs in the bays of the Strategic Air Command's manned bombers. Backing up SAC's bombers will be a growing force of missiles, but SAC alone will provide an abundance of what the Pentagon calls "overkill." The H-bombs carried by a single B-52 bomber add up to 20 megatons of blast power-the equivalent...
Capt. Spofford's post at the University will be taken over by Capt. Richard B. Redmayne at a change-of-command ceremony on Feb. 29. Capt. Redmayne has a distinguished war record and was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart...
...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...