Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commander of the 37th Tank Battalion, Abrams rode point in the race from Normandy to the Rhine in a string of command tanks-each of which he named Thunderbolt. He spearheaded the column that relieved the encircled 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. Often cut off himself, the cigar-chomping tanker once said: "They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards." Abrams' embrace of battle earned him the unqualified admiration of his fiery Third Army Commander, George Patton: "I'm supposed to be the best tank commander in the Army...
Firepower & Mass Attack. After World War II, Abrams made a smooth transition to staff officer, attended Command and General Staff College and the Army War College, rewrote a book on armored tactics, then served as a corps chief in Korea. In 1960, after a series of U.S. staff assignments, he was given command of the 3rd Armored Division in West Germany-in time for the Berlin crisis of 1961. Next year Abrams returned to the U.S. as Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations for Civil Affairs, and had the unlikely task of quelling riots at Birmingham...
...advocate of overwhelming firepower and the shock value of mass attack, Abrams will take to the battle an unalloyed respect for the men he will soon command. After his most recent slog through the boonies of South Viet Nam, he said: "You can't go out there and talk with the soldiers and officers without coming away inspired...
...place as part of Operation Junction City, was an expert execution of the newest Allied infantry tactic of the war. In essence, the tactic consists of a mating of one of warfare's oldest fundamentals-deep patrolling-with modern technology: massive air and artillery firepower at instant radio command. It has proved a lethal union. Not until the beginning of 1967 did the U.S. have sufficient troops in Viet Nam to put the new tactic to use on a widespread basis. The three months since have witnessed fighting of a scope and scale unequaled in the war, producing Communist...
...tether during a space walk, the astronaut suddenly seems to be in trouble. His command pilot orders him back aboard the spacecraft, but he does not respond. Something has happened to him, and obviously he must be recovered...