Word: leathernecks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watson had remarkable stamina: He set two permanent obstacle-course records at the Quantico base, where he became an officer. He bucked for the Marines' most elite outfit, the First Force Reconnaissance company, and had to survive a list of training schools that were excruciating even for Leatherneck standards: cold-weather, escape and evasion, parachute jumping, scuba diving, demolition...
...looked as though we were in for a bigger war, with the North Vietnamese coming in, not just the guerrillas." With the 2nd Battalion, 9th Regiment of the 3rd Marine Division, he landed in Viet Nam in November 1967 and served six months as a machine-gunner in "Leatherneck Square" adjoining the DMZ. Lance Corporal Coats no longer remembers the date when he was wounded more precisely than "the last couple of days in May 1968." "We'd just cleared a bunker complex and were stationary. Early in the afternoon, a barrage came in. A rocket round hit about...
...year veteran, Cushman at 56 has the physical presence of a Leatherneck on a recruiting poster-barrel-chested, hair closely cropped, posture ramrod-straight. His distinguished fighting record reaches from Pearl Harbor to Viet Nam. In a time of cerebral officers, he views the world through the eyes of a rough Marine combat officer...
Died. Lieut. General Lewis B. Puller, 73, the legendary Leatherneck who became the most decorated Marine in the corps' history; of pneumonia; in Hampton, Va. Weaned on the rousing reminiscences of Confederate veterans, Virginia-born "Chesty"-so called because he always walked like a pouter pigeon-was often described as a born combat leader. According to legend, he went into battle with a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked in his duffel bag. Volunteering as a private in World War I, Puller was commissioned at 20; he first saw action battling bandits in Haiti and Nicaragua...