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Gene Bane ©Stars and StripesBeirut, Lebanon, July, 1958: Chaplain (Maj.) Lester E. Burnett, right, Protestant chaplain of Army Task Force 201, baptizes Pfc. David Johnson, from the 724th Ordnance Battalion's B Company, in the Mediterranean Sea. Thousands of U.S. forces had been sent into Lebanon in the previous week to protect that nation's beleaguered pro-Western government.