Word: leathernecks
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...willed team of rivals: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Vice President Joe Biden. "We will oversee the strategic implementation of [Obama's] decisions with a finely developed set of metrics," says Jones in the patois peculiar to those who spend 40 years as a leatherneck. Then he adds, "In a collegial...
There's a whole lot of shakin' going on inside Pentagon combat boots as President Clinton prepares to pick a new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The reason is that one of two top candidates is a tough-talking Leatherneck who thinks today's military are deployed too often for too long and are buying too many weapons at too high a price. The appointment of Marine General John Sheehan, commander of the U.S. Atlantic Command (his main rival is the current Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman, Air Force General Joseph Ralston), would make him the first Marine...
...Army. Although many experts agree with Halloran, any move in that direction would encounter huge political land mines. Harry Truman once tried to slash the Marines on the grounds that the Navy did not need its own army, but he was beaten by what he described as a Leatherneck "propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's." Aside from the clout of ten Senators and 21 Representatives in the current Congress who served in the Marines, the corps exudes such a mystical aura that it is unassailable...
...ground with stones and pointing southeast, that Rother may have constructed to indicate the direction in which he was traveling. But after three days, the search party fails to find him. A month later, a second Marine-led search party has no more success in locating the missing Leatherneck...
...graduation in 1961, North attended the State University College at Brockport, majoring in English but dreaming about a military career. He enrolled in a campus Marine officers' training course and spent a summer at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. When he returned, he was dead set on being a leatherneck, and a friend's father helped him to gain admission to Annapolis...