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Reals joined the Marines as a stenographer, but graduated from Women's Officer Candidate School in 1961 and advanced through a series of training and management commands, most recently as chief of staff at the Marine education and development center in Quantico, Va. Her new responsibilities have not yet been designated. Although a general, she is barred by law from assignments that might lead to combat. For that the Marines need men. Hence their slogan. But Reals is not offended. "For obvious reasons," she says, "this is primarily a male organization...
...L.A.O.O.C. will erect fences and sentry posts around the Olympic Villages where athletes will live. For further security Soviet Olympic officials and coaches would have slept on a ship anchored off Long Beach. The first major assignment of the Pentagon's newly organized hostage rescue team, now training at Quantico, Va., will be to station itself in Orange County during the Olympics, ready to swing into action alongside the Los Angeles Police Department's crack SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team if terrorists try anything at the Games...
Though Tickel has been under investigation since 1977, he was assigned to sensitive and classified bureau cases until his transfer last summer to the FBI's training school in Quantico, Va., as an instructor. FBI officials refuse to discuss the case or the seemingly belated reassignment of Tickel. Says one: "The director fired him. That...
...dimensions of the difficulty produced an unmistakable air of tension last week at the White House. Reagan skipped his Wednesday horseback ride at Quantico, Va., for a budget session and remarked at a Cabinet meeting on Thursday that "there will be blood, sweat and tears for all of you." Though Reagan kept his options open during a Camp David weekend of studying briefing books, aides said he was likely to propose...
...Marines in 1967, while a student at Hofstra University on New York's Long Island. Muller, whose family had emigrated from Switzerland when he was one, became convinced of the "inevitability" of America's struggle in Indochina and wanted to play a part. Recalling his graduation from Quantico, he says: "I stood there in my dress whites and cried like a baby when they played The Star-Spangled Banner. I cried out of pride...