Word: binh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...L.B.J., as its inmates call the Long Binh Jail, is like army stockades everywhere: not much worse than Stateside prisons, or more uncomfortable than the ordinary barracks of South Viet Nam. Located in the middle of the Army's main supply and administration center twelve miles northeast of Saigon, it houses 700 prisoners in a barbed-wire compound built for 400. Their crimes range from smoking pot or going AWOL to theft and murder, and as an M.P. staff officer puts it, the prisoners create "every kind of problem that you find in a civilian prison...
...Main Threat. Around Saigon, the Communists last week began overrunning U.S. and South Vietnamese guard posts on the city's approaches. All week long there were sporadic fights around the vital Binh Loi bridge outside Saigon as the V.C. tried to cut the capital's link with the major U.S. bases of Long Binh and Bien Hoa to the northeast. U.S. intelligence placed three enemy divisions no more than two nights' march from the capital: the 7th NVA and the 5th V.C. divisions to the north and west, and the 9th V.C. Division to the northeast...
Army in Viet Nam (USARV) headquarters at suburban Long Binh. Though the initial damage was light, no one could be sure that the Communist attack was not a softening-up prelude to another major drive. Compared with the brutal onslaught of the Tet offensive, however, last weekend's thrusts seemed mild...
...about to quit the place when I met a soldier from Seattle, a helicopter gunner from the 162nd Assault Copter Co. in Phu Binh. He had been in Vietnam for 17 months but had never seen Saigon--and he was only in town this time to take a flight physical for helicopter pilot school in Alabama. He thought he had passed the physical and so became quite expansive, telling me about himself and his work "up north." He was a high school drop-out before enlisting and had failed at a few endeavors before the army...
Viet Cong ideologists rank Binh Van (subverting enemy troops) as one prong of a triple-lined war effort, accompanied by political and military action. "Direct propaganda at U.S. troops, especially draftees and colored soldiers," ordered a captured Viet Cong directive. But while Negroes are promised special treatment if they defect, other Viet Cong slander them, terrorizing villagers with tales of cannibalism by Negroes...