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568:, Felt was criticized for exercising excessive control over MACV field operations. Felt denied many of Harkins' equipment requests, interfered with details of Harkins' tactical planning, forbade Harkins to communicate with the Joint Chiefs of Staff without advance permission from CINCPAC, and actually bypassed Harkins to direct certain tactical operations himself from his headquarters in Hawaii. Many observers argued that reporting to CINCPAC was hindering MACV operations and that MACV should be an independent command under the direct supervision of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but Felt and his successors as CINCPAC blocked multiple attempts to remove MACV from their control, arguing that allowing MACV to bypass the unified regional commander would violate the principle of 31: 667:. A former aide described him as "mean as hell", and his staff complained that he worked "as though there were no holidays, Saturdays and Sundays, and expects others to do the same". "He was small in stature, but a blunt, tough, demanding taskmaster who brought discomfiture to his peers and earned the antipathy, if not animosity, of his subordinates", judged former subordinate and future four-star admiral 414:
was probably about a year too long, because morale was getting pretty low. As I told Admiral Burke, it was just a matter of time before someone was going to slug him. You can't operate like that. Admiral Felt wasn't big enough to defend himself. I said that one of these days he's going to come at someone who's going to wipe up the corridor with him, regardless of how many stars he has."
435:. What do you think? No? Why? Resp'y, F." Although his job title was officially abbreviated as "CINCPAC", he was informally nicknamed "CINCFELT" within the command, due to his larger-than-life personality. During his tenure as CINCPAC, Felt directed American military operations in three regional hotspots: 533:. In internal administration debates, he warned that the proposed American intervention lacked a sound strategic concept and "would commit the U.S. to another Korea-type support and assistance situation" from which "we can't pull out at will without damaging repercussions." In a conference with General 549:. In early 1962, Felt presciently predicted that Viet Cong forces would seek "a prolonged form of attritional warfare" that could not "be defeated by purely military means". His favored policy was to organize, train, and equip indigenous Vietnamese forces, but to keep U.S. troops out of the country. 413:
recalled the antics of the diminutive vice chief: "He would grab three-star officers by the lapels, literally shake them, and say, 'Why don't you do so and so or such and such?' They'd be thirty or forty pounds heavier than he was, but that didn't bother him at all. He was there for two years, which
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By the end of Felt's second year as vice chief, even Burke had had about enough of him. "It isn't pleasant to fight continually with a good friend, and after a while you wonder whether he's all that good a friend." Furthermore, Burke suspected that Felt had become an automatic faultfinder, which if
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Felt was publicly optimistic about the American intervention, declaring at a 1963 press conference that the war could be won in three years. He bristled at members of the press who did not seem sufficiently enthusiastic about ongoing American military operations. Introduced to
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true would render his advice as useless as that of an automatic yes-man. When a four-star command opened up in the Pacific, Burke appointed Felt, claiming virtuously, "I couldn't hold him back just selfishly to keep him in the vice chief's job."
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from 1928 to 1929, Felt met his future wife, Kathryn Cowley, whom he married on August 3, 1929, after warning her that the Navy would always come first. She later reported that even as a newlywed, Felt's life was "just fly, fly, fly".
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to help the Nationalist government defend Quemoy's supply lines. "We didn't go to war then because we were strong and moved in a deterrent force", he later concluded. During the crisis, Felt and his staff planned for the use of
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and was appointed to the academy in 1919. At the Academy, Felt received good marks but graduated in 1923 with the unremarkable class rank of 152 out of 413, having accumulated almost as many demerits as anyone in his class.
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In 1958, Felt was offered the command of all U.S. forces in the Pacific and Far East, and he jumped at the opportunity to avoid spending the rest of his career behind a desk. Upon becoming commander in chief of
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on July 31, 1958, Felt immersed himself in the details of its operation, bombarding his staff with scribbled black pencil missives dubbed "Feltgrams" that invariably concluded, "Advise me
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from 1949 to 1951, becoming chief of staff in the spring of 1950 and acting as president from October 17, 1950, to December 1, 1950. He was promoted to rear admiral in January 1951.
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in February. He was promoted to captain in July. In March 1944, Felt became the first naval aviator assigned to the U.S. Military Mission to Moscow. He commanded the escort carrier
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Felt had a terrifying reputation as an arrogant, caustic, hard-driving perfectionist. "Many people were afraid of him ... he was pretty rough", commented Vice Admiral
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in which all parties pledged to respect Laotian sovereignty. North Vietnam continued to supply South Vietnamese insurgents via Laos along what would become the
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into Vietnam, would provoke intensified communist aggression, and would entangle U.S. soldiers in military engagement with the
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before applying for flight training out of sheer boredom. From then on, naval aviation was his life. While training at
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He was commander of Carrier Division 15 in 1953 and 1954, practicing anti-submarine warfare from the escort carrier
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player, Felt unapologetically summarized his philosophy as "Trust everybody, but always cut the cards."
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Felt retired in July 1964 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age, and spent his later years in
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Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Felt was transferred to command the air group on the carrier
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in the Atlantic and Mediterranean from August 3, 1948, to July 11, 1949. He was on staff at the
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at a Saigon press conference, Felt growled, "So you're Browne. Why don't you get on the team?"
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Lyndon B. Johnson: Remarks Upon Presenting the Distinguished Service Medal to Admiral Felt.
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in the Taiwan Strait because they believed the use of such weapons would not trigger
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Barr, Malcolm (July 2, 1964), "Dedicated to Peace: Adm. Felt Given Highest Honors",
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from February 1945 to January 1946, a tour that included heavy participation in the
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rated Felt as a 20-1 longshot to succeed Burke as chief of naval operations.
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Foreign Relations, 1961–1963, Volume III, Vietnam, January–August 1963
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with special Grand Cordon, by the Republic of China. Cape Felt, in
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As a junior officer, Felt served five years aboard the battleship
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during operations off Okinawa, for which the ship received a
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for "extraordinary heroism and distinguished service" at the
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and because "we didn't have a plan to do it any other way".
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through the Laotian town of Tchepone. In a meeting with
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insurrection and to interdict the flow of supplies from
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Felt strongly opposed deploying American soldiers into
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as assistant director of the Strategic Plans Division.
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After the war, Felt was assigned to the Office of the
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Promoted to vice admiral in 1956, Felt commanded the
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on August 24, 1942, Felt led Air Group 3 (AG-3) from
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