Show Page 2 Nation's Forces Ready Anytime Because of the concern of how ready the United States would be in case of attack we are printing this guest editorial by Weldon associate editor of the He is a lieutenant colonel in the ready reserve of the Marine Corps He recently returned from a tour of active duty with the Sixth Fleet in the Serve with the Sixth participate in its listen to Navy look at the map and you'd be as an Italian journalist assured his Italian in sleeping better at It's that matter of the general theory of which is that nobody in Russia is going to push any nuclear buttons unless they've gone completely And when it comes to preserving sanity one of our most powerful influences on the Kremlin is the simple fact whatever might happen elsewhere the fast and mobile Sixth dispersed in the million square mile area of the can with the utmost Add that to the deadly but different potential of the Army and the Air and you really have The fleet is in the Navy's measured of delivering in a single attack more destructive power than all of that unleashed by all of the Air Forces combined in World War And it is demonstrably ready for any kind of warfare or limited or atomic or From the weapons of its Marines and submarines to its missile cruisers and destroyers and the all-weather supersonic fighters and bombers of its great attack it has what security officers prefer to abbreviate as The bombers in the security a striking radius excess of a range that could include most of the Soviet Union's major industrial centers and Moscow much less the closer lands of the Mediterranean and the Middle The core of the fleet's strength is its attack aircraft carrier striking force two to three carriers such as the Forrestal and a normal quota of than an amphibious landing force to combat-ready combat-loaded Marines prepared to debark by helicopter or landing craft or supporting vessels ranging from missile cruisers and submarines to sub-killers and mine and sustaining auxiliary or service The men of the in the words of its former George W. now the chief of naval are its backbone more important than its electronics brains or its deadliest They're inured to mused one maybe our job is to be ready for |