Word: 173rd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concluded last Wednesday, when the Sergeant Major of the Army pleaded guilty to running the "khaki cosa nostra" in Vietnam.) The two most powerful were Colonel Ross Franklin and General John W. Barnes, who became his immediate superiors when he was given command of the 2nd Batallion of the 173rd Air-borne. Herbert shrugged them off, confident that he was safest in sticking to Army regulations...
...said, was that he had accused two superior officers of covering up war crimes. In a formal complaint filed with the Army in September 1970. Herbert accused Major General John W. Barnes and Colonel Joseph Ross Franklin, the commander and deputy commander of his Viet Nam unit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, with failing to investigate or report incidents of murder, torture and mistreatment of prisoners. Colonel Herbert then became a quite different symbol to the Army. The battle that followed has resulted in one of the most bitter internal disputes in recent Army history...
...about anything to get what I want.'" Three lieutenant colonels requested an appearance on the Dick Cavett Show to refute Herbert's allegations of unfair treatment, and were turned down. One of them, Lieut. Colonel Ken Accousti, former operations officer of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, questioned Herbert's truthfulness: "I got so that I couldn't believe anything Herbert reported from the field. I finally started following him around physically. I never heard anything about war crimes, and they would have filtered...
...Long street in the seamy port of Qui Nhon, South Viet Nam's third-biggest city, two troopers from the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade halted their three-quarter-ton truck. Whether they stopped to shift their load, as they said, or to grab a beer or a whore, is beside the point. Within minutes, one of a legion of larcenous Vietnamese urchins surrounding the truck had made off with a fire extinguisher...