A battalion of U.S. Marines will be sent to the Middle East within a few days, the Defense Department announced today. The marines are being dispatched as a result of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommendations in view of the danger of Arab-Israel war.
The official announcement said the marine unit, described as a reinforced battalion of about 1,800 men is being sent to replace a similar force withdrawn from the Mediterranean last Spring. The marines will be assigned to the U.S. Sixth Fleet forces in Eastern Mediterranean waters. The battalion will sail in about a week. It will cross the Atlantic in attack transport of the Atlantic Fleet.
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