Word: ammo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist column by American Claymore mines, which so shredded the enemy that a full body count could only be made by tallying weapons; the "long patrol" of Sergeant Robert Grimes Jr., another brave Negro, who took his men deep into Red territory-each armed with 800 rounds of ammo and plenty of Tabasco sauce (a favorite condiment for cold C rations); a "checkerboard" search through thick jungle by the 101st Airborne, which finally pinned down and slaughtered 400 North Vietnamese in log bunkers...
Despite the dangers, the building of a school wins friends for the Saigon government. At Soc Don, another Delta hamlet, all but twelve families moved off into the jungle when government troops arrived to secure the community. But when classes were opened in a deserted hut, using ammo boxes as tiny desks, people drifted back. Now 120 families live in Soc Don, the school is crowded, and a new classroom building is going...
...twelve miles northwest of Saigon, building homes for Vietnamese refugees. An adept at the ancient art of cumshaw and cajolery, Worrall overcomes the perennial shortages of materials by canvassing battlefields in a borrowed "deuce-and-a-half" (2½-ton army truck) and scavenging useful debris like 105-mm. ammo boxes, which he pounds into A-frames for his buildings...
...original found aboard one of the ships) swiftly tot up the deflection, angle-bearing and elevation of the rocket launchers. Then, just to make sure, one officer stands on the bridge to double-check the course of the rockets. Last week, as McCoy's Navy plastered everything from ammo dumps to Viet Cong villages in support of Saigon's Operation Franklin, accuracy on all targets ranged from...
...mousetrap play. The U.S. Army captain and the Vietnamese airborne battalion, which he served as adviser, fought their way into a Viet Cong camp near Bong Son one night, only to find the place deserted. Then, at midnight, with the ammo running low, Captain Pete Dawkins, 27, had the V.C. red-dogging in on both flanks. After a quick firefight, Army's 1958 AllAmerica halfback huddled with his assistant, Lieut. Dick McDaniel, a former Nebraska end, and called for a "quick draw"-an artillery barrage from the nearby 1st Air Cavalry Division. That play scored fine, and afterward...