Word: arvn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bolovens Plateau, overlooking the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The base, known as Site 22, commanded the SeKong River, a key artery in the trail complex. Near Tchepone itself, North Vietnamese troops managed to call in American artillery on South Vietnamese positions by using the same radio frequencies as the ARVN troops'. At other times they lured American helicopters into antiaircraft fire. Total helicopter losses since the Laos operation began five weeks ago: 66 destroyed and well over 160 more shot down but recovered...
...brief period they managed to cut traffic along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in half. By last week, truck movements were returning to normal, though most of the supplies were going to nearby Communist troops in Laos, instead of to enemy forces in Cambodia and South Viet Nam. The ARVN also counted 1,731 tons of food captured or destroyed, along with weapons for as many as nine battalions, 800 tons of ammunition, 108 tanks and 8,008 enemy killed in action or captured-at a cost of 726 South Vietnamese dead and 2,763 wounded. Even if the figures...
...best ARVN troops also took considerable losses, probably far more than Saigon officially reported. South Vietnamese military sources admit that enlistments for such elite outfits as the paratroopers and the marines, which were hit hard in Laos, are running at one-tenth the preinvasion figures. Even more dispiriting was the rationale offered by a U.S. briefing officer in Saigon-that the incursion into Laos had "bought time" for Cambodia's neophyte army. Last year's invasion of Cambodia was also billed as buying time-for the army of South Viet...
...enemy gunners during the pull-out after a strike. Probably the most available targets over Laos today are the ubiquitous Hueys, which serve as everything from VIP tour buses to combat assault gunships that fire 6,400 rounds of minigun fire in a minute. Though U.S. pilots generally give ARVN high marks for bravery, some pilots complain that the South Vietnamese have misused Medevac on occasion. Angry flyers tell of having braved fierce Communist fire to answer ARVN calls, only to find "shammers"-men swathed in bandages but with no wounds-when they arrive. Other pilots gripe that ARVN commanders...
...ARVN: Come on in; there's nothing happening here...