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...Division" were saddling up to leave their Fort Benning, Ga., base to head for South Viet Nam. Other troops required to bring the U.S. force in Viet Nam to 125,000 in the immediate future would be selected from inbeing units. Last week 3,700 paratroopers of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division-better known as the "Screaming Eagles"-landed at South Viet Nam's Cam Ranh...
Into Cam Ranh Bay on South Viet Nam's bulging east coast slipped a grey-hulled U.S. troop transport, its decks aswarm with the "Screaming Eagles" of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division. Sentries on the dock paced impassively, their faces shadowed under their helmet liners, their M-14 rifles riding taut from the slings. As the transport neared the dock, a cry went up from the 3,700 paratroopers: "Take a break! We're here!" The sentries, like veterans anywhere, smiled knowingly...
...South Viet Nam, including a contingent of some 3,900 troops of the historic 1st Infantry Division ("the Big Red One") that landed last week. On the way from Fort Campbell, Ky., was a 4,000-man brigade of the 101st Airborne Division. Also ticketed for Viet Nam is the Army's recently created 1st Cavalry Air Mobile Division now in training at Fort Benning, Ga. By the end of this year, the U.S. will almost certainly have nearly 200,000 men in Viet Nam, and if the Communists insist on stepping up their own effort, the U.S. troop...
...called "strategic reserve." They are: the 1st and 2nd Armored Divisions at Fort Hood, Texas; the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kans.; the 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga.; the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, Wash.; the 5th Infantry Division (mechanized) at Fort Carson, Colo.; the 101st Air borne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky.; and what is left of the 82nd Airborne Division after some 12,000 of its men were sent from Fort Bragg, N.C., to the Dominican Republic. In addition, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has designated six National Guard and Reserve divisions as high-priority...
...General Westmoreland [Cover, Feb. 19] is a soldier's soldier. Give him the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and you'll see an end to this nonsense. HARRY W. ROSENTHAL Captain, Army of the U.S. (ret.) Millburn...