CNN News Update: From offshore Cuba, Marines of the 1st Battalion have found themselves in the same predicament as the Bay of Pigs invaders months earlier. They have been stopped cold in their advance from Playa Hermosa and are barely hanging as help is rushed to them.**


The situation is serious, Commander! Your lack of gaining control of the beachhead has put us in a bind. We don't have time to talk. Get back to your men and get the situation at the beach in hand. Dismissed!