Word: arvn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aircraft before the end of 1973. That goal may not be reached on schedule, but the South Vietnamese already account for 90% of the air activity within their own borders. They also account for nearly 100% of the casualties, both ground and air. During the past few months, ARVN soldiers have been dying at the staggering rate-in view of the low level of fighting-of 200 to 300 a week...
...burglary by deliberately knocking over the garbage cans. As a formidable force of South Vietnamese Rangers, armored, infantry and artillery units assembled at a base in Tay Ninh province northwest of Saigon, Lieut. General Nguyen Van Minh's command post issued almost daily bulletins about what targets the ARVN force would hit across the border in Cambodia. Communist staging areas near the town of Snuol were mentioned, as were the Mimot plantation near Krek, the vast Chup plantation, the town of Suong and the enemy-infested banks of the Chhlong River...
Last week Total Victory VI, as the big operation was named, finally got under way. Riding trucks, tanks and armored personnel carriers, roughly 20,000 ARVN troops rolled across the border and into the Fishhook area of Cambodia along Route 7. An ARVN airborne brigade choppered ahead and occupied Chrum, a small town northwest of Krek, the initial objective. After three days, there was no sign of the 5th, 7th and 9th North Vietnamese army divisions, which had been operating in the area. By week's end, after what was described as "light contact," the South Vietnamese claimed...
...massive ARVN move into Cambodia was doubtless prompted by a sudden increase in the flow of enemy supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, where the seasonal surge in Communist truck traffic has come much earlier than usual. By hitting the Communist staging areas in Cambodia in the coming weeks. ARVN forces hope to spoil enemy plans to regroup and resupply for an offensive in South Viet Nam early next year...
...Pace are a quandary. "If the guns are pulled out," said one artillery officer, "it will be the same as a slap in the face to the Vietnamese. We will be saying to them that we don't trust them to protect our firebases." At the same time, ARVN must learn to defend such installations, which, after all, are there to support the Vietnamese. Unless they do, a U.S. general said last week, "our men are going to be more and more involved in securing fewer and fewer bases...