We had a hell of a "show of force operation" on Okinawa in 1961. We were told that it was for the benefit of some S.E. Asian leader that we were pressuring to join SEATO. If we were told the name of the country, I've forgotten it.
Most of us had joined the Corp thinking we would be going back to Korea to finish that deal.
But the domino theory promised a wider war which was in the interest of the "MIC" Ike had warned about a couple years earlier.
