Word: artillerymen
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...troops were cautiously probing the sanctuaries where elements of three North Vietnamese divisions are believed to be waiting for the signal to open their long-awaited dry-season offensive in South Viet Nam. Meanwhile, Communist units deeper inside Cambodia opened their own offensive. In midweek, a force of Communist artillerymen, perhaps no more than 200 strong, struck the capital with a devastating, 90-minute rocket and mortar barrage...
Located alongside South Viet Nam's Route 22, Fire Base Pace was established for two long-range 175-mm. U.S. guns and two 8-in. howitzers to support Vietnamese army operations along the Cambodian border. The guns and the artillerymen who fire them need defensive support from infantry to keep North Vietnamese troops from getting close enough to use their mortars, bazookas and even small arms...
...number of factors have upset the original expectations. Boxed into static positions, ARVN artillerymen with 155-mm. eleven-mile-range howitzers are often outreached by North Vietnamese gunners with 130-mm. pieces that can fire a shell 17 miles. Fog blankets fire bases and curtails vital air support...
...broader theater. Even while gunfire blazed in Amman, other guerrillas raided Israel along the Jordanian border. Israeli troops patrolled inside Lebanon to contain guerrilla activity there, but the fedayeen nevertheless managed to loft Soviet-made Katyusha rockets into the frontier town of Kiryat Shemona. Syrian artillerymen firing Russian guns shelled a border defense settlement called Nahal Gishor, killing a girl soldier. Suez rocked with the sound and fury of the heaviest fighting...
...needed in case of sudden enemy contacts and to serve as an aerial umbrella for South Viet Nam's cities. COMBAT SUPPORT TROOPS, including artillery and engineer, medical, and even armored personnel, will remain at a level of 20,000 after the withdrawals have been completed. ARVN artillerymen have shown themselves highly proficient with their American-supplied guns, and should be equal to all government needs by 1972. But more time is required to train technicians for the ARVN's engineer battalions, and U.S. personnel will still be necessary to help staff military field hospitals as the ARVN...