Word: cavalrymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Police armed with burp guns and long metal rods. The policemen question and search the villagers, poke the ground with their rods in search of holes hiding Viet Cong or arms. They usually flush out both, and load them into the Chinook. With that, the police and the Cavalrymen withdraw. Usually within two hours the village is alone and tranquil again-minus its Viet Cong...
...fight in Binh Dinh. Since few any longer do, the division is using its airpower to harass the Viet Cong in other novel ways. One is Operation Snatch, which is employed whenever a roving Air Cav chopper spots a suspiciously large group of people in the countryside. The Cavalrymen immediately dive down to pick up a few suspects for questioning, a tactic that discourages the Viet Cong from moving around amid the protective coloration of groups of harvesters or peasants on their way to market...
...battle scenes, Richardson enlisted 600 horses, 727 cavalrymen and 3,000 infantrymen, compliments of the Turkish Chief of Staff. Trouble was, most of the horses were aged mounts purchased from the U.S. Army when it disbanded its cavalry. When it came time to film the 1?-mile charge, many of the horses could barely finish. As for the soldiers, they just kept smiling broadly-at the camera. And when they were called upon to fall in battle, they spoiled everything by rolling on the ground and laughing...
...Communist bodies was a Chinese mortar sight, on others a compass, quadrant and binoculars: ominous evidence that the North Vietnamese might be preparing to clobber An Khe with mortar fire in preparation for an assault. Into the mountains swept chopper loads of Air Cavalrymen to "spoil" the Red attack before it could be mounted...
Motivated Jousters. The memorial services came to their panting climax last week when 500 costumed university students, assisted by "cavalrymen" recruits from local riding schools, appeared before thousands of tourists on the hallowed field near Hastings to re-fight the battle, in abbreviated form...