(This feature is the second of a monthly series celebrating ARPC’s 60th birthday. Each month will highlight a new decade until ARPC’s 60th birthday which is March 1, 2014.)
People remember the 1960s for different reasons, from President John F. Kennedy to the Beatles to Woodstock to the landing on the moon. For this personnel center, it was a decade of mobilizations.
Officials at the center executed four mobilizations, more than any decade before or since. These mobilizations were the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the USS Pueblo incident of 1968, and the escalation of war in Southeast Asia in 1968.
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