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The U.S. Marine Corps in Crisis : Ribbon Creek and Recruit Training
author
:
Fleming, Keith.
publisher
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University of South Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
:
087249635X
print isbn13
:
9780872496354
ebook isbn13
:
9780585331508
language
:
English
subject
Military education--United States--Basic training--History--20th century, United States.--Marine Corps--History--20th century.
publication date
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1990
lcc
:
VE432.F54 1990eb
ddc
:
359.9/6/0973
subject
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Military education--United States--Basic training--History--20th century, United States.--Marine Corps--History--20th century.
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The U.S. Marine Corps in Crisis
Ribbon Creek and Recruit Training
Keith Fleming
Page iv
Disclaimer: Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook.
Copyright University of South Carolina 1990
Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Edition
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fleming, Keith, 1941 The U.S. Marine Corps in crisis: Ribbon Creek and recruit training / Keith Fleming p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87249-635-X 1. Military educationUnited StatesBasic training History20th century. 2. United States. Marine Corps History20th century. I. Title. VE432.F54 1989 359.9'6'0973dc20 89-38175 CIP
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For Kathryn, Joanna, and John
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Contents
List of Illustrations
viii
Author's Note
ix
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Acronyms and Abbreviations
xv
Introduction
1
1. Development of the Maltreatment Problem
10
2. The Ribbon Creek Incident
29
3. The Immediate Reaction
40
4. Instituting the Changes
56
5. The McKeon Court-Martial
74
6. Making the Changes Work
87
7. Greene's Downfall
101
8. Postscript
111
Notes
122
Bibliography
139
Index
145
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List of Illustrations
Following page
46
1. Aerial photo of rifle range 2. General Randolph Pate 3. General Wallace Greene 4. General Shoup inspecting honor guard with General Greene 5. General Greene removing rank insignia 6. Attorney Berman and Sergeant McKeon 7. School Building and site of court-martial 8. Recruits practicing bayonet training
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Author's Note
Even though I am employed as a civilian historian for the U.S. Marine Corps, the research and writing of this book, like that for the dissertation from which it derives, were done on my own time. This history should not be construed as representing the official policies or position of the U.S. Department of Defense., the U.S. Department of the Navy, or the U.S. Marine Corps. The opinions and conclusions expressed herein are my own, as are any errors or omissions.
KEITH FLEMING WOODBRIDGE, VIRGINIA JULY 16, 1988
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Preface
This book, in a certain sense, is not about the Ribbon Creek incident at Parris Island, South Carolina, in 1956; it is about the United States at midcentury. From that perspective, Ribbon Creek is simply a lens through which we can examine some facets of American culture in an era now thirty years in the past.
The United States was under a great deal of stress in the mid-1950s. One source of that stress was fear for the nation's security. The post-World War II reliance on nuclear weapons as the relatively inexpensive key to national defense had not prevented the conventional war in Korea. The country's conventional forces, particularly its ground combat forces, had not been kept ready for such a war. Their initial introduction into combat in Korea almost resulted in total defeat due to five years of post-World War II national neglect. Throughout the war in Korea, newly arrived American combat troops had trouble at first in negotiating the Korean mountains on foot. Americans worried about the stamina and physical fitness of the younger generation and found Communist propaganda about decadent American society unsettling. Post-Korean War revelations about "collaboration" by American prisoners of war added to the discomfiture.
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