Word: quantico
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After graduating in 1968, North skipped summer leave and cruised down to Basic School at Quantico, Va., in his new, fleck-metal green sports car, a Shelby Cobra. North stood out right away, recalls Fellow Officer Scott Matthews. "He was hot, extremely hot . . . He was a very action-oriented individual, eager to get on with it." While at Quantico, North married Betsy Stuart in a traditional military ceremony, complete with an arch of crossed swords. He had met her on a blind date set up by his cousin when he was in his last year at Annapolis...
When North's tour of duty was over, he returned to Quantico to teach tactics. As an instructor, North was something of a hot dog: he wore camouflage to class, and once surprised his students by jumping on a desk and opening fire with an M16 loaded with blanks. North justified his histrionics by saying that his men must be prepared for anything. "If you screw up, you die," he told them...
Even friends who admired North sometimes found his ambition hard to take. Rob Pfeiffer, who taught with North at Quantico, recalls basketball games in which North constantly fed the ball to the commanding officer. "Ollie passed to him because he was in to make rank," recalls Pfeiffer. "He was going to be a general, and being in Quantico wasn't quite close enough to Washington...
North briefly left Quantico in 1973 to supervise jungle training in Okinawa. Once again, he never let up, working long hours and seven-day weeks. His wife was not with him, and toward the end of his tour, the strain seemed to trigger a depression. He voluntarily checked himself into Bethesda Naval Hospital for mental exhaustion and stayed three weeks. North has never spoken of the experience, and it was subsequently expunged from his record. When he was released, he was pronounced "fit for duty." North was helped through this trying period in his marriage by the works...
...traditional homecoming: being confined to the Marine base in Quantico, Va. But Douglas Beane, 39, who was facing a court-martial when he deserted the Marines in Viet Nam in 1970, is not a typical returning traveler. Arrested last December when he applied for a visa at a U.S. consulate in Australia, Beane won a court battle that allowed him to stay in that country. Instead, he voluntarily decided to return to the U.S. so he could visit his ailing father in West Rutland, Vt. But when he landed at Los Angeles airport, U.S. marshals arrested him, and the Marine...