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...keep two airmobile divisions, probably the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne, each with about 450 helicopters, on hand after the other fighting units have been withdrawn. These units will serve as "fire brigades," taking advantage of their mobility to rush to any location where it appears that the ARVN (Army of Viet Nam) is in trouble. Even then, they are meant to take no part in the main fighting. Instead, they will free regular ARVN or militia units for combat by relieving them from road or town security duty...
...still be 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...
...would be to pull as many Americans as possible into coastal enclaves where they could be more easily supplied and protected. Too much isolation from the South Vietnamese, however, would only diminish the effectiveness of the American troops. Whatever is done, the U.S. forces will be uncomfortably dependent upon ARVN to hold and police the countryside. U.S. military planners are frankly uneasy about the situation. Said former Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Warnke, one of the authors of the withdrawal plans: "The nightmare is that suddenly we look up at the DMZ and there they are, saying 'April fool...
...told him, "I don't feel I should be here," Agnew paused and replied in a whisper, "We all want to get it over with." Later, he expressed enthusiasm about the progress of the war. "The most significant thing to me," he told reporters, "was the way the ARVN are working with the U.S. forces. I'm really encouraged...
...military press officers, the directive bans or substantially alters 22 terms that once were used frequently in briefings for correspondents in Saigon. Instead of "search and destroy," U.S. briefing officers should now say "search and clear." U.S. troop withdrawals are to be described as "U.S. redeployment" or "replacement by ARVN" (Army of the Republic of South Viet Nam). A Viet Cong tax collector should be called a V.C. extortionist. V.C. defectors are to be called ralliers...