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...created Task Force Oregon, a pastiche of units, to relieve Marines in I Corps. Several months later the task force received a new commander, Major General Samuel W. Roster (later demoted because of My Lai), and was incarnated as the Americal Division,* composed of the 196th, 198th and 11th Light Infantry Brigades and others. The union was unfortunate...
From the beginning the units were very difficult to meld together. The 196th, for example, considered itself the 196th Brigade, and its men did not even want to take off their old shoulder patches. Size alone-at times as many as 24,000 men-made the division unwieldy, and it had some of the worst soldiers in the Army...
...race marked the 196th anniversary of Paul Revere's thrilling ride through the Boston suburbs to warn the citizens that the British were coming...
...field telephone between a battle-weary young infantry lieutenant on a Vietnamese hill and his battalion commander was disturbingly reminiscent of classic episodes of battlefield rebellion. Ground down to two-thirds of its original strength after five days of sharp combat, a U.S. Army unit-Company A of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade's 3rd Battalion-had balked at orders to advance once again on well-bunkered North Vietnamese positions...
...Some 5,000 North Vietnamese troops closed in on the Kham Due outpost astride Route 14 about 70 miles from Kontum. The post was defended by 1,300 allied soldiers; most of them were civilian irregulars, reinforced by a U.S. Marine artillery platoon and an element of the U.S. 196th Light Infantry Brigade. Kham Due shaped up as the kind of set-piece battle that General William Westmoreland yearned for in the early days of the massive U.S. presence in Viet Nam, when so much of his military force was expended in fruitless hunts for an enemy refusing to stand...