Word: 1st
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...built up the base's garrison to more than 5,000 Marines in a hasty airlift of troops and equipment that suspended all civilian air traffic throughout Viet Nam. Other allied units shifted nearer the scene of the impending battle to be ready if needed, including a 1st Cavalry (airmobile) brigade helicoptered to Phu Bai, only 45 minutes' flying time from Khe Sanh. For what looked more and more like the first classic conventional battle on a major scale of the Viet Nam war, Westmoreland has deployed some 45,000 men to meet the 40,000 North Vietnamese...
...sneak attackers were units of the Viet Cong 9th Division, and their quarry was an 1,110-man force of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division's 1st Brigade, which was setting up a powerful artillery base at Suoi Kut, only seven miles from the Cambodian border. The Communists hoped to even an old score: last March the men of the 1st Brigade had killed 647 soldiers of the 9th Division at nearby Suoi Tre in the biggest single one-day victory of the war. The Viet Cong also hoped to catch the 1st unprepared, since the U.S. infantrymen...
...Christmas gift for each of the men in South Viet Nam's 1st Regiment of the 1st Division, based just south of the Demilitarized Zone. It was the lightweight, fast-firing M-16 rifle, which packs far more punch than the older and heavier weapons that the ARVN (for Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troopers had been carrying. The 1st Regiment soon had a chance to use them. During the Christmas truce, its scouts spotted a large North Vietnamese force moving into the Quang Tri coastal flats. As soon as the truce had ended, the ARVN moved...
...Cong killed more pacification workers than in 1966. The ARVN regulars constitute South Viet Nam's military spine, and on them the U.S. has expended its greatest training efforts. Those efforts, too, need improvement. Of the ten regular divisions, only three are considered "good" by U.S. commanders: the 1st in northernmost I Corps, and the 7th and 21st in the Delta. One division, the Delta's 25th, is rated virtually a disaster; the other six divisions range from "spotty" to "promising...
...participate in the action- and in the responsibility. The defense of Saigon is now largely in Vietnamese hands. Even more significantly, the U.S. Marines are beginning to turn over the task of manning the strongpoints along the Demilitarized Zone to the ARVN. Already the first units of the ARVN 1st Division are in place on the eastern anchor. Newly armed not only with the M-16 but also with M-60 machine guns (as will be all the ARVN this year), the Vietnamese 1st will soon take over Gio Linh, Con Thien and all the exposed positions where the Marines...